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Pedagogy 2008 8(1):5-24; DOI:10.1215/15314200-2007-022
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Why Read Reading Lolita? Teaching Critical Thinking in a Culture of Choice

Simon Hay

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.






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