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- Title
- On site : 'If on a winter's night a traveler' and creative pedagogy
- Author(s)
- Tofts, Darren
- Abstract
- Teaching literary theory is quite different from introducing students to a way of thinking theoretically about literature. The teaching of what have come to be conventional literary theory courses will continue to have an importance for the human sciences, particularly with respect to the historical development of theory, its discontents, and its breakdown of the boundaries of specialization which had traditionally compartmentalized discourse. However, the institutionalization of theory over the past decade is a sign that what was once unsettling has become domesticated. No longer prompting questions about the academic study of literature, literary theory itself has become an object of academic study, subsumed into the system and the ideological disinterestedness of scholarly meta-languages which it initially had the potential to subvert. What is now required to revitalize the critical force of theory is not, I believe, a new way of teaching it, but a modification of traditional pedagogical practices capable of regenerating the interrogative impulse of theory through dramatic use: a practical application of the implications of theory, not an academic reiteration of them. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Bridging the gap : literary theory in the classroom / J. M. Q. Davies (Ed.), Part 4, p. 285-300
- Publication year
- 1994
- Keyword(s)
- Education; Learning; Literary criticism; Literary theory
- Publisher
- Locust Hill Press
- ISBN
- 0933951604
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1994 J. M. Q. Davies. All rights reserved.
- Peer reviewed
