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Addressed to educators and general readers--the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life--this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature.

Dr. Frye's proposals for the teaching of literature include an early emphasis on poetry, the "central and original literary form," intensive study of the Bible, as literature, and the Greek and Latin classics, as these embody all the great enduring themes of western man, and study of the great literary forms: tragedy and comedy, romance and irony. Top page

General info

Publisher & Imprint: Indiana University Press

Edition details New impression

City: Bloomington, IN

Pages: 160

More info: height 198 mm width 129 mm weight 164 gr thickness 8 mm

Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC21) 801 Library of Congress Subject: 64018815 Literature - Philosophy

Record updated at: 21 May, 2013 time: 13:00

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