Reading narrative as literature : signs of life
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Reading narrative as literature : signs of life
（English, language, and education series）
Open University Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references p. [162]-167 and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Telling and listening to stories, reading stories, watching stories (on television or film) are central to the way we live our lives: and are also at the core of teaching and learning about literature. The author explores how stories work and how a theoretical understanding of narrative can be translated into classroom activities which make readers more knowing and more discriminating. He examines how we recognize and read stories, the mechanisms by which stories work on us and the means by which society and its cultures both produce us as readers and at the same time produce the stories we read. He introduces - in an eclectic and practical way - the ideas of literary theorists in the context of familiar classroom texts such as "Spit Nolan", "Jane Eyre" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Table of Contents
- Introduction - stories and why they matter. Part 1 Making a reading: voyeurism at "Owl Creek"
- response theories - the reading process and what counts as literature
- reading who says what
- applications and implications - public models of private reading
- reading as expectation and recognition - context, quotation and reference
- reading-time and reading time. Part 2 Interpreting the text: storyshapes and summaries
- binary structures - comparisons and contrasts
- paths and choices - sequences and correspondence
- symptoms and symbols - metonyms and metaphors, names and titles
- prodding and padding. Part 3 Ways of telling: the phantom of the author
- (book is) book as film (is film)
- viewpoints and voices
- showing and telling
- realism and convention. Part 4 Culture and criticism: authors in history
- readers in history - different generations read "Bleak House"
- the influence of critics
- culture and meaning - insidious values in Victorian novels
- culture and meaning - critical reading of competing values
- loaded language
- beware of the dogs - animals as ideological decoys. Part 5 Implications and applications: art and life
- short story, full treatment
- opportunities in teaching an epic
- foregoing suggestions categorized.
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