Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue an

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"Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of cultu

Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass medi

Elaborates a theory of reading developed in an earlier book, by offering a larger discussion of what constitatutes the act of literacy engagement and the ways t