Description
A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read.
In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszynska thinks back on various book clubs she has been a part of. Through brief discussions of a variety of novels, memoirs, and nonfiction works such as Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Marjane Satrapi's Chicken with Plums, and Alma Guillermoprieto's Dancing in Cuba, she considers how the things she has learned in book club discussions differ from what she tries to teach students in her literature classes. As she muses on the various benefits that we imagine reading offers, she describes the unique knowledge that book clubs can provide.
About the Author
Katarzyna Bartoszynska teaches in the Department of Literatures in English and the Program of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ithaca College. She is the author of Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature and also works as a translator, most recently of Zygmunt Bauman's writing.
Book Information
ISBN 9781958846148
Author Katarzyna Bartoszynska
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Publisher Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Weight(grams) 454g
In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszynska thinks back on various book clubs she has been a part of. Through brief discussions of a variety of novels, memoirs, and nonfiction works such as Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Marjane Satrapi's Chicken with Plums, and Alma Guillermoprieto's Dancing in Cuba, she considers how the things she has learned in book club discussions differ from what she tries to teach students in her literature classes. As she muses on the various benefits that we imagine reading offers, she describes the unique knowledge that book clubs can provide.
About the Author
Katarzyna Bartoszynska teaches in the Department of Literatures in English and the Program of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ithaca College. She is the author of Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature and also works as a translator, most recently of Zygmunt Bauman's writing.
Book Information
ISBN 9781958846148
Author Katarzyna Bartoszynska
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Publisher Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Weight(grams) 454g
