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" If you teach it, they will read : "
John V. MacLean
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BL
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694222
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b516411
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MacLean, John V
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If you teach it, they will read : : literature's life lessons for today's students /\ John V. MacLean
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, MD :: Rowman & Littlefield Education,, c2010
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xvi, 149 p. ;; 24 cm
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160709777x
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: 1607097788
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: 9781607097778
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: 9781607097785
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1607097796
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9781607097792
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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Introduction : why read good books? -- The search for identity : Cyrano de Bergerac and A Lesson Before Dying -- Rite of passage : The Odyssey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Heart of Darkness -- The quest : Arthurian legends, Siddhartha, and Song of Solomon -- I want a hero : The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Hamlet -- The anti-hero : Native Son and The Stranger -- Literary devices -- A woman's place : Medea and A Doll's House -- The little things that matter : Emma and Pride and Prejudice -- Dealing with loss : "the wanderer," the Hemingway hero, and The Tempest -- The need to dream : Of Mice and Men, The Glass Menagerie, and The Great Gatsby -- The weight of the past : Oedipus and The Piano Lesson -- Private morality and second chances : The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, and The Kite Runner -- Throwing the good away : Macbeth, Fences, and Death of a Salesman -- Love, actually : Twelfth Night, Othello, and Wuthering Heights -- Some great deed : The Iliad -- Final thoughts
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