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Babelyuk, Oksana; Koliasa, Olena; Matsevko-Bekerska, Lidiia; Matuzkova, Olena; Pavlenko, Nina – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The article deals with the analysis of literary narrative where a possible unreal fictional world and a possible real fictional world usually coexist. When the norms of life plausibility are consciously violated, the real and the unreal possible worlds are emphatically opposed. Hence, their certain aspects are depicted in a fantastically…
Descriptors: Literature, Stereotypes, Literary Devices, Fiction
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Collin, Ross – Ethics and Education, 2021
This article explores how literary study engages readers' moral perception and imagination. Although some philosophers discuss reading as a largely solitary activity, this article explores social practices of reading common in English language arts classrooms in secondary schools. The article shows how reading with others can change the quality of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Imagination, Literary Criticism, Educational Philosophy
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Williams, Kevin – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2021
The argument of this paper is that many texts of the Western literary canon rather than being vehicles of establishment values are critical of these values. Teaching these texts allows educators to challenge the interests of those who hold power in society as well as conventional sexual morality and gender stereotypes. Many important works of…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Literature, Ethnocentrism, Literary Criticism
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Kelli McGraw; Lisa van Leent – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
This paper presents an analysis of the prescribed text list for senior school English (including English as an Additional Language or Dialect, EAL/D) in Queensland, Australia. Queer understandings about the normalization of cisgender and heterosexuality provide a framework to analyze prescribed texts for adolescent learners. Hetero-cisgender norms…
Descriptors: Reading Lists, High School Students, English Curriculum, English (Second Language)
Washington, Durthy A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Help students to explore the intertextuality of literature and to think more deeply and compassionately about the world. This book shows high school teachers and college instructors how to foreground a work's cultural context, recognizing that every culture has its own narrative tradition of oral and written classics that inform its literature.…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Literature, Social Justice, Reading Instruction
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Dressman, Mark; Rao, Dingxin – English in Education, 2020
This essay uses the metaphor of "savvy travelling" to discuss the limitations and problems associated with three current "best practice" approaches to the reading of literature in upper grade levels, particularly in the United States: close reading, response-based reading, and disciplinary literacy. A "savvy" approach…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Literature, High School Students, Teaching Methods
Robson, Mark, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2020
"What is Literature? A Critical Anthology" explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. 'What is literature?' is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a…
Descriptors: Literature, Literary Criticism, Aesthetic Education, Poetry
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Choo, Suzanne S. – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
Recent debates among scholars in Literature education have led to polarizing views about the aims of the subject. The debate reignites ancient quarrels about the aesthetic and political values of literary study and relatedly, the different pedagogical approaches to teaching. In the first part of this paper, I explore the aesthetic-political divide…
Descriptors: Ethics, Literature, Teaching Methods, Political Attitudes
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Rezvani, Saeid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Shamlu belongs to the few poets of the modern Persian poetry, who can be called neoclassical, namely, those whose work has a distinctive character and who are influential in the history of modern Persian literature. These special characteristics of Shamlu's poetic features together with his socio-cultural and political vision as manifested in his…
Descriptors: Poetry, Humanism, Indo European Languages, Innovation
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Karam, Khaled Mostafa; Elfiel, Helmy – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
This paper argues that compression is a hallmark of creativity, demonstrating the effect of the process of compression and decompression on the cultivation of creative potentials. This study also suggests some cognitive strategies by which creative literary compression can be encoded and decoded in the light of some relevant theories. In order to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Concept Formation, Literature
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Bell, Michael – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2018
What is thought, and how can it be taught? Philosophy and literature have often promoted different conceptions although each requires, consciously or not, a mutually inclusive understanding. The question of value, which lurks at the centre of this, was given special salience by the literary critic, and 'anti-philosopher', F. R. Leavis who still…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Literary Criticism, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods
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Verhovtsova, Olga; Ishchenko, Olga; Kalay, Dilsah; Tikan, Yana – Advanced Education, 2022
The study aims to investigate the higher education students' and teachers' perception of using literary text in the foreign language course; to evaluate learners' progress in the foreign language communicative competence throughout the experiment period; to outline the policies and strategies of using analytical reading in the English class, which…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Essa, Alfred – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2019
In "Funes the Memorius," Jorge Luis Borges tells the tale of an Argentinian man who falls off a horse, becomes paralyzed, and acquires the strange gift of infinite memory (Borges, 1993). Funes remembers everything, which is to say he forgets nothing. The author will use Borges's story as the backdrop for his response to Professor…
Descriptors: Literature, Memory, College Faculty, Criticism
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Gordon, John – Classroom Discourse, 2020
This article examines spoken quotation in literary study during discussion of novels in junior and senior classrooms. It focusses on teachers' third-turn exposition for literary-critical talk, a space where the modality of texts is transformed from print to oral expression. Teachers' spoken quotation develops students' sensitivity to how literary…
Descriptors: Speech, Novels, Classroom Communication, Literature
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Tasdan, Tugçe Elif – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
Intertextuality, the term defining the relationship and the similarity of a newly-produced text with previous ones, has provided a broad array of subjects to be studied especially in social sciences. Firstly, literary works have been analyzed within the framework of intertextuality, and striking similarities have been found among literary texts.…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Literature, Role, Mythology
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