The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives Why...
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Author: Arnold Weinstein
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing by Weinstein, Arnold

The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

$49.70

The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

$49.70
Author: Arnold Weinstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives

Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor's life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit.

As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person--and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature's knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters' lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge--and come to understand its cost.

In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters because we never stop discovering who we are.

Author: Arnold Weinstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 01/16/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780691254791

About the Author
Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His recent books include Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages through Books and Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman (Princeton). He has also recorded five series of lectures on literature for The Teaching Company. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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