Teaching with Paratext: Rereading Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter" in the Literature Classroom

Autor/in	Scharnhorst, Rhiannon
Titel	Teaching with Paratext: Rereading Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter" in the Literature Classroom
Quelle	In: CEA Forum, 49 (2021) 1, S.3-28 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-8034
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Literature Appreciation; Fiction; Reader Text Relationship; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Influences; Story Telling; Illustrations; News Media + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Literarische Wertung; Fiktion; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Bildliche Darstellung; Nachrichtenwesen
Abstract	In this age of PDFs and free e-texts, literature gets separated from its initial context, perhaps even devoid of context all together. Taking Roald Dahl's most anthologized short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" as its object of study, this article proposes a pedagogy that embraces the return of paratextual material to the literature classroom. Through a close reading of Dahl's story and an account of the paratextual material surrounding its initial publication in Harper's Magazine in 1953, the study of paratext can offer students a more complex and culturally textured understanding of a text, one that often expands and illuminates their own emplaced reading practices--i.e. practices situated in, reflective of, and partly determined by not just the particular cultural-historical moment of a story's publication, but also by their own emplacedness as readers in the twenty-first century. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	College English Association. Web site: http://www.cea-web.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01