English Literature is widely taught discipline in the universities of the world, but surprising enough, literature pedagogy is little discussed, dealt with and research on. The question seeks to invite the scholars/expert in the literature pedagogy area to describe the existing pedagogy and recommend the pedagogy to be taken up.
We also look forward to having references to the existing scholarships/ papers/ articles/ dissertations/ books on the literature pedagogy.
Dear Sir,
It depends on the aims or learning objectives as Literature could be taught either by communicative method or by conventional way (facilitation, discussion, video viewing and etc.). It is not the content or topic that matters but more importantly, it is the results that each instructor would like to achieve.
Teaching techniques should be varied to allow each type of learner access to the information being taught. While it is virtually impossible to cater to each student's learning needs, diversity in teaching is necessary. I have some objection to certain methods of literary critique, such as Feminist and Marxist, if only because they are too narrow in their points of view to apply to all literature. As for deconstruction- well, if literature means nothing, why bother teaching it at all? At the very least these methods of critique should not be the only method in a literature class (unless, of course, you're specifically teaching a Marxist of Feminist literature class). However, I believe many of the other lenses should be utilized in combination in the classroom so that students can get as much possible out of any given work. Methods such as Reader-Response, Archetypal, and New Criticism are all methods that offer varied ways of interacting with literature. Because literature is one of those subjects where sometimes there is one answer and sometimes there are 50 answers, there needs to be room for students to look at a work from as many angles as possible. As for choosing one literary theory above the others I don't know that I would pick any single theory to use for all works of literature.
This may be more relevant to the study of English language rather than of English literature, but you might like the idea/lens of viewing the global story of English geographically?
With Chris Mulvey I tried to tell the story through 100 places across the world:
Book A History of English in 100 Places
https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-English-Language-100-Places/dp/0709095708
You might also enjoy the work of this group - http://www.englishproject.org/
Bill
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