Why literary texts in the EFL classroom?
New criticism
Reader-response theory
Reader response theory -> subjective-response oriented perspective of teaching literature
• Readers actively ‘make sense’ of a text instead of identifying a fixed meaning
– Creating coherence in a text (cf. ‘top down processing‘)
• ‚aesthetic reading‘
– Sharing the perspectives of fictional narrators and characters
– Predicting future developments
– Appreciating the artfulness of the text
New Historicism
Cultural Studies
consequences of New Historicism and cultural studies
Culture as iceberg
intercultural learning and teaching literature
Transcultural competence - added value?
Byram’s model for ICC
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