Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight

by Dennis J. Sumara

Book Overview

Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight explains how a reader's involvement with literary texts can create conditions for developing deep insight into human experience, and how teachers can develop these interpretive possibilities in school contexts. Developed from the author's many years of research, this book offers both a theoretical framework that draws from an interdisciplinary array of sources...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805842292
• ISBN13: 9780805842296
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"