\'Facts alone are wanted in life, \' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens\' Hard Times.
With examples ranging from Sappho to Skyrim, this book shows how Literature offers freer and deeper ways of thinking and being..
Literature is a living conversation which provides endless opportunities to rethink and reinterpret our societies and ourselves.
Eaglestone shows that studying Literature can change who you are, turning you from a \'reader\' into a \'critic\' someone attuned to the ways we make meaning in our world.
But, argues Robert Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of Literature that makes it such a rewarding and useful subject.
Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. \'Facts alone are wanted in life, \' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens\' Hard Times
