The Heart of the Humanities by Edmundson, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Dedication By the Same Author Title Page Contents Epigraph Introduction Part 1: Why Read?

Literary Life

Total Entertainment All the Time Cool School The World According to Falwell Final Narratives Circles For Ignorance Down the Hall Foucault, Industrial Strength Interpretation Good at School Truth Wordsworth’s Truth Identification Gender and Identification But Shakespeare? Hamlet Good Medicine? Disciples Exemplars Orwell’s Dickens Influence Proust Form and Feeling Disciplines History Now Always Historicize? Canons Multiculturalism Pop Democracy and Faith

Part 2: Why Write?

Why Write?

Getting Started

To Catch a Dream

To Do It Every Day

The New Writer

To Have Written

To Get the Girl / To Get the Guy To Make Some Money To Get Even To Strengthen the Mind To Grow To Fail To Change the World

Hitting your Stride: Perils and Pleasures / Pleasures and Perils Perils and Pleasures

To Drink

To Get Reviewed To Learn to Be Alone To Read as a Writer To Do Something To Hold Your Peace

Pleasures and Perils

To Learn Something

To Stay Sane To See What Happens Next To Find Your Medium To Skip Writing the Great American Novel To Find Beauty and Truth

The Writer’s Wisdom

To Mine a Fresh Experience

To Beat the Clock (A Little) To Stop Revising To Remember To Get Better as You Get Older To Draw a Constellation To Have the Last Word

Part 3: Why Teach?

Introduction

The Shift

Liberal Arts & Lite Entertainment (1997)

Dwelling in Possibilities (2008)

Fellow Students

Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?

Do Sports Build Character? Glorious Failure The Globalists The Corporate City and the Scholarly Enclave The English Major My First Intellectual The Pink Floyd Night School

Fellow Teachers

A Word to the New Humanities Professor

Against Readings Narcissus Regards His Book/The Common Reader Now The Uncoolness of Good Teachers Teaching the Truths Under the Sign of Satan: Blake in the Corporate University 2 3 4 5 6

A Note on the Author Praise for Why Read? Praise for Why Write? Praise for Why Teach? Copyright

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