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Reading Narrative as Literature

Reading Narrative as Literature Signs of Life - English, Language and Education Series

Paperback (01 Apr 1991)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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".

Book information

ISBN: 9780335094196
Publisher: Open University Press
Imprint: Open University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.923
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Weight: 330g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm