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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: lives of literature
    sub title: reading, teaching, knowing
  name:
    name part: Weinstein, Arnold
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 344 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates the power of our greatest books to 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 most because we never stop discovering who we are.
  note: Arnold Weinstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Weinstein, Arnold
    topic: Books and reading
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Characters and characteristics in literature
  subject:
    topic: Self in literature
  subject:
    topic: Best books
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
  classification: PN45 .W357 2021
  classification: 801
  identifier: 9780691177304
  identifier: 0691177309
  identifier: 9780691232324
  identifier: 2021026491
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210628
    record change date: 20220427203403.6
    record identifier: in00004561728