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'Why Literature?' offers a conception of the value of literary reading that demonstrates its importance for psychological and social well-being, and works out the implications of that conception for how we teach literature in universities. Cristina Vischer Bruns offers a defense of the value of literature and suggests ways in which the problematic relationship between personal and academic reading may be overcome. - Publisher.
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5 editions- Paperback · English · 2011Continuum · 158 pages · 9781441124654
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 174 pages · 9781322086019
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781441151506
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781441125200
- Other · English · 2011Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 176 pages · 9781441109897
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