Literature is the imaginative manipulation of perspective…

Just wanted to paste this blurb into my blog, so that I can throw away the piece of paper I’d been keeping.  It’s much easier to keep track of information on this blog than in my paper files (what a mess).  It comes from the College of DuPage department of English and Composition.
What is literature?
Literature [...]

“Thoreau kindles awareness” (Thoreau does it again!)

It’s refreshing to read high-schoolers getting excited about writing, thinking, even about “being awake” in the philosophical sense. It’s even better when it’s Thoreau who turns them on — or who wakes up their minds and souls, rather. It was Thoreau who did it for me, too — a quarter century ago.
Haley Henderson, a local [...]