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020			_a9781942341031
040			_aMnU _beng _cMnU
050		4	_aPE1408
100	1		_aSteinberg, Theodore L. _eauthor
245	0	0	_aLiterature, the Humanities, and Humanity _cTheodore Steinberg
264		2	_bOpen Textbook Library
264		1	_bOpen SUNY
300			_a1 online resource
490	0		_aOpen textbook library.
505	0		_aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Homer, The Iliad -- Chapter 3: Homer, The Odyssey and Virgil, The Aeneid -- Chapter 4: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella -- Chapter 5: Shakespeare -- Chapter 6: Pope, "The Rape of the Lock" -- Chapter 7: Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews -- Chapter 8: Jane Austen -- Chapter 9: Charles Dickens, Bleak House -- Chapter 10: George Eliot, Middlemarch
520	0		_aLiterature, the Humanities, and Humanity attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of reading and studying literature, even earlier literature. It shows students, some of whom will themselves become teachers, that literature actually has something to say to them. Furthermore, it shows that literature is meant to be enjoyed, that, as the Roman poet Horace (and his Renaissance disciple Sir Philip Sidney) said, the functions of literature are to teach and to delight. The book will also be useful to teachers who want to convey their passion for literature to their students. After an introductory chapter that offers advice on how to read (and teach) literature, the book consists of a series of chapters that examine individual literary works ranging from The Iliad to Charles Dickens' Bleak House. These chapters can not substitute for reading the actual works. Rather they are intended to help students read those works. They are attempts to demystify the act of reading and to show that these works, whether they are nearly three thousand or less than two hundred years old, still have important things to say to contemporary readers.
542	1		_fAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on print resource
650		0	_aHumanities _vTextbooks
650		0	_aRhetoric _vTextbooks
710	2		_aOpen Textbook Library _edistributor
856	4	0	_uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/204 _zAccess online version
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