Overview
- Serves as a practical, applicatory guide to teaching narrative theory
- Features contributions from a variety of key narrative theorists in the UK and US
- Features contributions on digital methods
Part of the book series: Teaching the New English (TENEEN)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Narrative is everywhere and has unique powers: to enchant and inspire, to make sense of our lives and ourselves and to afford us an enriched understanding of alternative worlds and lives and of better futures – though narrative also has the potential to coerce and oppress. Narrative is at the centre at all stages of the English curriculum and has been the subject of a burgeoning critical industry. This timely volume addresses the many ways in which recent thinking has informed the teaching of narrative in university classrooms in the UK and the USA. Distinguished teachers from both countries range widely across narrative topics and genres, including the opportunities opened up by new technologies, and chapters articulate students’ own individual and collaborative experiences in the teaching/learning process. The result is a volume that explores the pleasurable challenges of working with students to help them appreciate and assess the power that narrative exerts, to become reflectivecritics of its inner workings as well as exponents of narrative themselves.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Richard Jacobs has taught narrative in secondary, tertiary and higher education. He is Principal Lecturer in Literature at the University of Brighton, UK where he has received teaching awards. His publications include A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Reading: an Anthology of Literary Texts, chapters in Reassessing the Twentieth Century Canon (Palgrave) and The Twentieth Century, editions of Vile Bodies and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, materials for teachers on post-16 literature, and several articles and reviews.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Narrative
Editors: Richard Jacobs
Series Title: Teaching the New English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71829-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70677-1Published: 23 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71829-3Published: 12 April 2018
Series ISSN: 1754-9728
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9266
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 214
Topics: Literary Theory, Screen Studies