VOYAGES INTO WISDOM: THE ART OF TEACHING LITERATURE

Description

This treatise on the teaching of literature examines the functions of literature and the constraints and possibilities of teaching it within today’s shifting landscape of reforms and policy realignments. The ideas emerge from over a decade of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and from sustained engagement with educational discourses—first as a journalist, then as an observer, and ultimately as an academic working across institutions of varied stature. Woven from everyday professional experience, extended conversations with literary enthusiasts, colleagues, and students, and active involvement in curriculum design, this work revisits both classical and contemporary conceptions of literature and the shifting focal points of its pedagogy.It also seeks to rearticulate the possibilities for strengthening literary studies at a time when its place and purpose are increasingly contested.