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2018
Volume 114, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

A maximally human form of close reading— historically informed yet reformulated for the twenty-first century— may help literature teachers respond to the challenges of political polarization and artificial intelligence.

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