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<P>"Classrooms and curricula should be structured to foster the playful interaction that can teach students how to negotiate social and political differences in an emancipatory, noncoercive manner.... Teaching reading as a playful exercise of reciprocity with otherness can help prepare students for a democracy understood as a community of communities."—from the "Pedagogical Postscript"</P><P>Reading is socially useful, in Paul B. Armstrong's view, and can model democratic interaction by a community unconstrained by the need to build consensus but aware of the dangers of violence, irrationality, and anarchy. Reading requires mutual recognition but need not culminate in agreement, Armstrong says; instead, the social potential of reading arises from the active exchange of attitudes, ideas, and values between author and reader and among readers. <I>Play and the Politics of Reading</I>, which has important implications for education, draws on Wolfgang Iser's notion of free play to offer a valuable response to social problems.</P><P>Armstrong finds that Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Henry James, and James Joyce provide apt examples of the politics of reading, for reasons both literary an
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- Author
- Armstrong, Paul B.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801443251
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Fiction