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LoMonico, Michael – English Journal, 2012
Why do educators teach literature? The author thinks they can hear the answer in the voice of Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield and Holden Caulfield and the omniscient narrator in "Beloved." It's the wonderful sound of those words, the gorgeous flow of those well-crafted sentences, and the marvelous way Twain and Dickens and Morrison and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Literary Styles