Researching Interpretive Talk Around Literary Narrative Texts

Shared Novel Reading

John Gordon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000203189
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Teaching Art

Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and narratology, this book theorizes teaching around narrative prose in each level of education, with a focus on a new framework of Pedagogic Literary Narration which emphasizes the practice of shared novel reading and the importance of the role of the teacher in mediating this practice. // With insights taken from a comprehensive set of transcripts taken from actual classrooms, the volume focuses on the convention in native-tongue literary study in which teachers and students read a novel shared over lessons, combining periods of reading aloud with those of questioning and discussion. In so doing, Gordon seeks to extend existing methodologies from literary and social science research toward informing teaching practice in literary pedagogy and address the need for a theorization of literary pedagogy which considers the interrelationship between text-in-print and text-through-talk. Transcripts are supported with comprehensive analyses to help further explicate the research methodology and provide guidance on implementing it in the classroom. // This book is a valuable resource for scholars in language and education, literary studies, narrative inquiry, and education research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Literary Study and Shared Novel Reading in Education
• 2 Researching Conversations about Literature in Schools and Universities
• 3 Novels, Narratives and Narratology
• 4 Theorising Pedagogic Literary Narration: Towards a New Narratology of Literary Study Conversations
• 5 Pedagogic Literary Narration in Action
• 6 Spoken Quotation in Pedagogic Literary Narration: Introducing QuoTE Analysis
• 7 Elaborating Characters through Conversation
• 8 Discussing Literary Narratives in Higher Education: Intertextuality and Tethering
• 9 Building Themes Together: Talk about Literary Novels in an Informal Book Group
• 10 Discussing and Navigating Narrative Form: How Texts Shape Talk
• 11 Developing Pedagogic Literary Narration for Teaching Literature
• 12 Interpretive Talk around Literary Narrative Texts: An Overview
• Appendix
• References
• Index