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What my students taught me about reading: old books hold new insights for the digital generation
Every year about 150 students enrol in the introductory English literature course at the Australian National University, which I teach.
The course includes works by Shakespeare, Austen, Woolf and Dickens.
- Kate Flaherty
- The Conversation
I know what these books did for me as a student 20 years ago, but times have changed.
I am curious to discover what reading these old books does for…