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020			_a9780691177304 _q(hardback ; _qacid-free paper)
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050	0	0	_aPN45 _b.W357 2021
100	1		_aWeinstein, Arnold _9419161
245	1	4	_aLives of literature : _breading, teaching, knowing / _cArnold Weinstein
260			_aUK : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2021
263			_a2111
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"--
600	1	0	_aWeinstein, Arnold _xBooks and reading. _91635469
650		0	_aLiterature _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aCharacters and characteristics in literature. _9103251
650		0	_aSelf in literature. _935810
650		0	_aBest books. _9370927
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General _2bisacsh _92442
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory _2bisacsh
655		7	_aLiterary criticism.
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