Narrative Style, Social Class, and Response to Poetry.

Hemphill, Lowry

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ERIC Number: EJ583519

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Narrative Style, Social Class, and Response to Poetry.

Hemphill, Lowry

Research in the Teaching of English, v33 n3 p275-302 Feb 1999

Explores differences in adolescents' styles of responding to poetry and relates these differences to contrasts in the way students narrate stories of personal experience. Finds contrasts between working-class and middle-class students in styles of responding to poetry which show parallels with their contrasting styles of narrating stories of personal experience. (SR)

Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Styles, Literature Appreciation, Personal Narratives, Poetry, Reader Response, Secondary Education, Social Class, Writing Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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