{"product_id":"9781587297571","title":"Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature","description":"Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, \u003ci\u003eTeaching Life\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation, this soul-stirring work also provides behind-the-scenes stories of many of the authors who have influenced Dale Salwak’s career.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Written in response to the sudden death of one of his students, who died tragically in an automobile accident on her way to Salwak’s office to talk over her career plans, \u003ci\u003eTeaching Life\u003c\/i\u003e is an effort to impart lessons to the next generation of teachers: “It was the suddenness of her death, I think, along with the utter loss of so much potential, which struck me forcibly, and I found myself wondering if anything I had said in class had made a difference in her too-short life or, for that matter, in the lives of any of my students.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By turns analytical, reflective, and exhortatory, \u003ci\u003eTeaching Life\u003c\/i\u003e unselfconsciously captures the fascination, enlightenment, and sheer joy that literary studies can offer professors and students. It also implicitly speaks to society's prevailing—and disturbing—prejudice against the profession.","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112152875248,"sku":"9781587297571","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587297571_p0.jpg?v=1763799276","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587297571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}