Literary Methods and Community Engagement: The Case of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” by Emad Mirmotahari
This essay offers new ways of understanding the connection between literary studies and community engagement by focusing not just on the content of literary study, but on one of the central methods. I argue that the practice of “close reading” a literary text—Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” in particular—can illustrate the integral relationship between a…