Literacy and Literature: priorities in English studies towards 2000.
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Durant, A. 1995. Literacy and Literature: priorities in English studies towards 2000. in: Korte, B. and Muller, K. (ed.) Anglistische Lehre Aktuell: probleme, perspektiven, praxis. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. pp. 37-59
Chapter title | Literacy and Literature: priorities in English studies towards 2000. |
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Authors | Durant, A. |
Abstract | Through discussion of a changing and unstable relationship between concepts of 'literacy' and 'literature', this chapter outlines problems of aims and content in university-level English studies, and speculates about future challenges. A historically changing balance is traced between social skills of language use and interpretation (often dismissed as merely 'instrumental') and concern with a body of literature whose fostering of moral and aesthetic values is sometimes deemed essential to national belonging or a sense of being cultured. The view is presented that English studies needs, far more than at present [1995], to integrate linguistic, literary, and media work rather than prioritising any one of these strands or teaching all three, but independently of one another. |
Research Group | Law and Politics |
Page range | 37-59 |
Book title | Anglistische Lehre Aktuell: probleme, perspektiven, praxis. |
Editors | Korte, B. and Muller, K. |
Publisher | Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier |
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1995 | |
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Deposited | 13 Oct 2011 |
Output status | Published |
Language | English |
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