You've Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature

by Jerome Klinkowitz

Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor and internationally renowned scholar Jerome Klinkowitz sorts out the wrong ways of teaching literature before devising a new, successful method. Specifically, he concludes that a historically based "story of English" is precisely the wrong narrative approach to making sense of what literature does. Instead, Klinkowitz proposes a new method focused not on the product of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809324032
• ISBN13: 9780809324033
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"