Description

Within this heavy and interesting meditation on the effectiveness and uselessness of reading in the digital-age, Harvard English teacher Marjorie Garber seeks to recover “literature” in the periphery of our individual, academic, and professional lives and recover it to the middle, like a revolutionary thought process.  But what's literature anyhow, how has it been recognized with time, and what's its importance for all of us today? Who reaches choose what the term means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato?