How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education - Brossura

Libro 8 di 32: Skills for Scholars

Newstok, Scott

 
9780691227696: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
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ISBN 10: 0691227691 ISBN 13: 9780691227696
Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2021

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A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully

How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought—one that demonstrates what we’ve lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare’s world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills enduring practices that can make learning more creative and pleasurable.

Challenging a host of today's questionable notions about education, Newstok shows how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past—not a fruitless obsession with assessment—that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him.

Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of thinking on every page, reviving timeless—and timely—ways to stretch your mind and hone your words.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Scott Newstok is professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College. A parent and an award-winning teacher, he is the author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England and the editor of several other books. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Editore
Princeton Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0691227691
ISBN 13 
9780691227696
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
185
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0691177082 ISBN 13:  9780691177083
Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2020
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