Literary Studies: A Preparation for Tertiary Education (and Life Beyond)

Autor/in	Zabka, Thomas
Titel	Literary Studies: A Preparation for Tertiary Education (and Life Beyond)
Quelle	In: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 23 (2016) 3, S.227-240 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-684X
DOI	10.1080/1358684X.2016.1203618
Schlagwörter	Literature; English Instruction; Familiarity; Reader Response; Empathy; Teaching Methods; Standards; Higher Education; Reflection; Foreign Countries; Austria; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Literatur; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Leserbrief; Empathie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Standard; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Österreich; Deutschland
Abstract	My argument is that a literary education should build on a primary level of responsivity towards literature, involving empathy and immersion in the world of the text. To engage with literary works from the past involves a play between familiarity and strangeness, and this play should be located as part of a reader's response to texts, rather than expecting students to imbibe the "dead knowledge" about literary periods and authors in which textbooks and literary guides traffic. Literary responsiveness involves sensitivity towards the specific character of the text, which means locating it in relation to other texts belonging to that genre without reducing it to being merely illustrative of a genre's so-called characteristics. In all these respects, contemporary educational standards reflect questionable assumptions about the development of a capacity to respond to literary texts, especially the supposition that a "mature" response to literature somehow involves moving beyond personal response to more analytical forms of engagement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01