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Why We Teach Literature (3295 words) |
 | One of the two camps was labeled the academic tradition, in which the treatment of literature in the curriculum was shaped by the science of philology, and the reading of every literary work had to be justified on the grounds of its contribution to the students' understanding of the logic and stylistics of literature. |
| Literature will contribute to their ability to understand others and to transcend differences if students read about people with problems like their own: people making life choices in circumstances of uncertainty, people searching for ideals in an increasingly materialistic world, people seeking to relate to others across cultural boundaries. |
| Secondly, it was suggested that a major value of literature is to give readers constructs--words, metaphors, images, and plots--with which to understand what would otherwise seem to be the random phenomena of human experience; and that a complementary value was the power of literature to nourish and educate the imagination. |
| 1943 (241 words) |
| 1943 is a common year starting on Friday.....1943 in art.. |
| ...Although completed in 1943, this film was not released for showing in the US until 1945.....Forever and a Day (1943), 104 minutes, D: Rene Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke.....For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), 170 minutes, D: Sam Wood.. |
| ...When she died on 22 December 1943, Beatrix Potter left fourteen farms and 4000 acres of.....When Beatrix Potter died in 1943, few knew the full story of her life. |
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