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Arnold Weinstein

Arnold Weinstein
Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His recent books include The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing and Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life’s Stages through Books and Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman (both Princeton). He has also recorded five series of lectures on literature for The Teaching Company. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.


In Praise of Reading: How Literature Enables Us to Inhabit New Worlds

Arnold Weinstein Considers the Role of Reading in the Construction of the Human Spirit
January 4, 2024  By Arnold Weinstein
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Teaching Literature Means Teaching Empathy

Arnold Weinstein on Literature’s “Ethical and Spiritual Transformation”
January 20, 2022  By Arnold Weinstein
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