Posted by Rick Denney on September 07, 2002 at 22:56:47:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Why should we have to defend teachers? posted by Doug on September 07, 2002 at 22:46:52:
If you are really interested in what makes literature literary, I highly recommend C. S. Lewis's An Experiment in Criticism. I stole my example from it. It is not a religious work like many of his other books, and is in fact within his professional expertise. He was, after all, a professor of English Literature at Cambridge (and at Oxford before it). It's in most bookstores. I've posted about it before, because of its novel approach to defining art--an approach that is interesting to musicians as well as writers.
And if you want to read a good book by him on education, read The Great Divorce.
Rick "humbly submitted" Denney