Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction; Richard Jacobs.- 2. Time, Narrative and Culture; Mark Currie.- 3. Talking Race and Narrative with Undergraduate Students; Sue J. Kim.- 4. The Ethics of Teaching Tragedy; Sean McEvoy.- 5. Teaching Comic Narrative; Rachel Trousdale.- 6. Teaching Crime Narratives: Historicizing Genre and the Politics of Form; Will Norman.- 7.Teaching Historical Fiction: Hilary Mantel and the Protestant Reformation; Mark Eaton.- 8.The Way They Lived Then: Using Wikis to Teach Victorian Novels; Ellen Rosenman.- 9. Digital Humanities in the Teaching of Narrative; Suzanne Keen.- 10.The Work of Narrative in the Age of Digital Interaction: Revolutions in Practice and Pedagogy; Alec Charles.- 11. Empowering Students as Researchers: Autoethnographic Approaches to Teaching and Learning Creative Writing; Jess Moriarty.- 12. Narrative and Narratives: Designing and Delivering a First-year Undergraduate Narrative Module; Richard Jacobs.
