Isbn: 9780062384331 - the Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison – a Scholar's Encounters with Convicts, Dark Classics, and Unexpected Truths (27 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them--Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran. On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman starts a book club with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. She assigns them ten dark, challenging classics--including Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Poe's story "The Black Cat," and Nabokov's Lolita--books that don't flinch from evoking the isolation of the human struggle, the pain of conflict, and the cost of transgression. Although Brottman is already familiar with these works, the convicts open them up in completely new ways. Their discussions may "only" be about literature, but for the prisoners, everything is at stake. Gradually, the inmates open up about their lives and families, their disastrous choices, their guilt and loss. Brottman also discovers that life in prison, while monotonous, is never without incident. The book club members struggle with their assigned reading through solitary confinement; on lockdown; in between factory shifts; in the hospital; and in the middle of the chaos of blasting televisions, incessant chatter, and the constant banging of metal doors. Though The Maximum Security Book Club never loses sight of the moral issues raised in the selected reading, it refuses to back away from the unexpected insights offered by the company of these complex, difficult men. It is a compelling, thoughtful analysis of literature--and prison life--like nothing you've ever read before.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them--Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran. On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman starts a book club with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. She assigns them ten dark, challenging classics--including Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Poe's story "The Black Cat," and Nabokov's Lolita--books that don't flinch from evoking the isolation of the human struggle, the pain of conflict, and the cost of transgression. Although Brottman is already familiar with these works, the convicts open them up in completely new ways. Their discussions may "only" be about literature, but for the prisoners, everything is at stake. Gradually, the inmates open up about their lives and families, their disastrous choices, their guilt and loss. Brottman also discovers that life in prison, while monotonous, is never without incident. The book club members struggle with their assigned reading through solitary confinement; on lockdown; in between factory shifts; in the hospital; and in the middle of the chaos of blasting televisions, incessant chatter, and the constant banging of metal doors. Though The Maximum Security Book Club never loses sight of the moral issues raised in the selected reading, it refuses to back away from the unexpected insights offered by the company of these complex, difficult men. It is a compelling, thoughtful analysis of literature--and prison life--like nothing you've ever read before.…

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Condition: Very Good. : En este fascinante relato, Mikita Brottman, experta en literatura, comparte su experiencia de dos años leyendo obras literarias con un grupo de convictos en una prisión de máxima seguridad en Baltimore. A través de clásicos desafiantes, como 'El corazón de las tinieblas' de Conrad y 'Lolita' de Nabokov, los presos revelan sus vidas, errores y anhelos. Brottman descubre que la vida en prisión, aunque monótona, está llena de incidentes y que la literatura puede abrir nuevas perspectivas incluso en los lugares más inesperados. Este libro es un análisis profundo de la literatura y la vida en prisión, que invita a la reflexión y ofrece una visión única de la condición humana. EAN: 9780062384331 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: The Maximum Security Book Club Autor: Mikita Brottman Editorial: HARPERCOLLINS Idioma: en Páginas: 272 Formato: tapa dura.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. New. Very little shelfwear. First printing. 230 pages. The dust jacket is in new mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Literature.

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Condition: New. pp. 288.

Condition: New. pp. 288.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Some very light edge wear to corners and spines ends.; 272 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.25x6.13x0.97 inches. In Stock.