1st Edition
Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters Imagination, Interpretation, Insight
Biography
Dennis J. Sumara
"Sumara takes readers on a personal journey in teaching and literary engagement....an interesting experience in literary engagement most appropriate for graduate students of hermeneutics with backgrounds in theoretical models and processes of reading and literature."
—CHOICE"This latest volume by Dennis Sumara adds a new layer of meaning to my continued appreciation of his work--work that promises to revamp how the literacy community theorizes reading pedagogy. Stunningly conceptualized and filled with powerful insights at every turn, this book is, at the same time, uniquely practical and engaging to read."
—Donna E. Alvermann
University of Georgia"This is the most eloquent and important writing about reading since Louise Rosenblatt's The Reader, the Text, the Poem. During a week when I had more than enough to do...I felt the book luring me back to it, again, and again, and I did not resist its allure, and I'm glad. It will change the way I read (and reread); it has already changed the way I teach....This book is utterly humane yet magnificently erudite....I am grateful for this book. Read it and reread it. I am sure you will be inspirited by it."
—Louise DeSalvo
Hunter College"Not since Margaret Meek Spencer have we had such a clear statement on 'how texts teach what readers learn.' Dennis Sumara shows how teachers can help readers to linger in texts, and he also demonstrates how those texts can reward readers who do this work."
—Jerome Harste
Indiana University
