Add to ORKGcan sometimes be overly self-referential. Rather than foster citizenship and social engagement, undergraduate literature classes are often lim-ited to exercises in textual interpretation as students learn to compare and contrast formal devices and thematic motifs. How do we mea-sure the student’s mastery of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, for example? Is it by his or her ability to retain the plot and character actions? Is it by the number of different motifs the student is able to identify? Is it by his or her ability to recognize verbal polyphony? Or, rather, is it by the stu-dent’s refusal to hurt another person regardless of how miserable and despicable that person may be? Is it by his or her decision to volunteer at a homeless shel...
Teaching Humanities to an increasingly globalized, diverse and non-traditional student body needs to...
In an era where philosophy is perceived as obsolete, without reference to daily life, one often wond...
In an era where philosophy is perceived as obsolete, without reference to daily life, one often wond...
Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor and internationally renow...
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowle...
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowle...
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowle...
International audienceWhat can literary studies bring to our experience? The fact that many scholars...
This chapter focuses on how doing empirical research can lead to insights in the way in which litera...
This chapter focuses on how doing empirical research can lead to insights in the way in which litera...
The humanities have always been under attack in the higher education of the United States of Americ...
In a discussion with Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust entitled “Do We Need to Rescue the Humaniti...
If the warnings of educators, researchers, and disgruntled postgrad students across the country are ...
If the warnings of educators, researchers, and disgruntled postgrad students across the country are ...
For many years, as a teacher of literature, I just taught the story- who did what, to whom, when, wh...
Teaching Humanities to an increasingly globalized, diverse and non-traditional student body needs to...
In an era where philosophy is perceived as obsolete, without reference to daily life, one often wond...
In an era where philosophy is perceived as obsolete, without reference to daily life, one often wond...
Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor and internationally renow...
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowle...
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowle...
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowle...
International audienceWhat can literary studies bring to our experience? The fact that many scholars...
This chapter focuses on how doing empirical research can lead to insights in the way in which litera...
This chapter focuses on how doing empirical research can lead to insights in the way in which litera...
The humanities have always been under attack in the higher education of the United States of Americ...
In a discussion with Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust entitled “Do We Need to Rescue the Humaniti...
If the warnings of educators, researchers, and disgruntled postgrad students across the country are ...
If the warnings of educators, researchers, and disgruntled postgrad students across the country are ...
For many years, as a teacher of literature, I just taught the story- who did what, to whom, when, wh...
Teaching Humanities to an increasingly globalized, diverse and non-traditional student body needs to...
In an era where philosophy is perceived as obsolete, without reference to daily life, one often wond...
In an era where philosophy is perceived as obsolete, without reference to daily life, one often wond...