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Why Read Reading Lolita? Teaching Critical Thinking in a Culture of Choice
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 8, Issue 1, Winter 2008
- pp. 5-24
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Both Azar Nafisi's and Mark Edmundson's recent books argue that the study of literature teaches a socially crucial set of critical thinking skills. But both take as dogma a liberal-capitalist framework and thus fail as models for how students can learn to think in genuinely critical ways.