The Risk of Reading: How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World

by Robert Waxler

Book Overview

The Risk of Reading is a defense of the idea that deep and close readings of literature can help us to understand ourselves and the world around us. It explores some of the meaning and implications of modern life through the deep reading of significant books. Waxler argues that we need "fiction" to give our so-called "real life" meaning and that reading narrative fiction remains crucial to the making of a humane and democratic society.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623563577
• ISBN13: 9781623563578
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"