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From Knowledge to Understanding: A Reorientation of English Literature Education
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Prezioso, M. G. – English in Education, 2023
In light of recent concerns in the United States and the United Kingdom regarding the rote and restrictive nature of English literature instruction, this article offers an approach to teaching literature rooted not in knowledge, as literary pedagogy is often conceptualised, but instead in understanding. Reading for understanding extends beyond…
Descriptors: English Literature, Teaching Methods, Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension
"The Fire Below": Towards a New Study of Literatures and Cultures (in English?)--A Letter from a Literary Scholar in a South African University in Transition
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Collis-Buthelezi, Victoria J. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This letter was first read as a seminar paper in the Institute for the Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town in which I offer a series of provocations about what our current moment asks of us. It is concerned with the future of literary and cultural studies (in English) at that university and in South Africa in the wake of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Curriculum, English Literature, Culture
Civil Ghosts: Transatlantic (Il)literacy and Personhood
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Kling, Rebecca Debra – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation aims to illuminate divergent ideologies of literacy and personhood in the United States and England, utilizing literary and non-literary texts from the nineteenth century to shed light on the historical constraints and conventions shaping our current moment. My version of the nineteenth century is a long one, since I look at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Literacy, History