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      Why Read?

      Mark Edmundson (University of Virginia)

      In this important book reconceiving the value and promise of reading, acclaimed author Edmundson dramatizes what the recent identity crisis of the humanities has effectively obscured: that reading can change…

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      The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll

      Mark Edmundson (University of Virginia)

      After graduating from college in 1974, Edmundson leaves his small Vermont campus with no plans for the future, though he knows it involves rock & roll and America’s high court…

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      Literature against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry

      Mark Edmundson (University of Virginia)

      This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory has led to an intellectual sterility which ignores the actual power and scope of literature. The book demands to be…

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