Rejoining the Common Reader: Essays, 1962-1990Northwestern University Press, 1991 - 231 Seiten Rejoining the Common Reader is suffused with the impulse that motivates Clara Claiborne Park's distinguished writing and teaching: the desire to related literature to the experience of its readers. This humane, balanced, and entertaining book will appeal to anyone who longs to recapture the pleasure of reading for personal enrichment and to teachers of literature who have grown to resent the intrusiveness of theory and theorizing and wish to reexamine what they are doing to, for, and with their students. |
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In Praise of Memory 20 | 20 |
Werner Jaegers Paideia | 40 |
How a Girl Can Be Smart | 56 |
Canst Thou Not Minister to a Mind Diseasd? | 73 |
No Time for Comedy | 93 |
Trollope for Grownups | 104 |
Henry Wilcox Babbitt and the State of Britain | 123 |
Recuperating Jane | 135 |
Toward Understanding | 146 |
Merrills Divine Comedies | 164 |
Talking Back to the Speaker | 181 |
Author Author Reconstructing Roland Barthes | 206 |
Mortal Stakes | 229 |
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