Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson

While students of English are required to engage with texts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, these positions are often refracted through a personal-ethical paradigm which uses the text as a surface on which students' moral selves can be displayed for the corrective gaze of the teache...

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Main Author: Bender, Stuart
Format: Journal Article
Published: English Teachers Association of Western Australia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28692
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description While students of English are required to engage with texts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, these positions are often refracted through a personal-ethical paradigm which uses the text as a surface on which students' moral selves can be displayed for the corrective gaze of the teacher. A model of reading as productive practice, on the other hand, suggests that there is no innate reason for a text (poetic or otherwise) to be read in this way. In this paper the author offers an alternative mode of study, drawing on historical- philological practice, which allows students to approach poetry from a perspective that brackets the notion of the personal response
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-286922017-01-30T13:06:40Z Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson Bender, Stuart pedagogy historical-philological poetry English teaching While students of English are required to engage with texts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, these positions are often refracted through a personal-ethical paradigm which uses the text as a surface on which students' moral selves can be displayed for the corrective gaze of the teacher. A model of reading as productive practice, on the other hand, suggests that there is no innate reason for a text (poetic or otherwise) to be read in this way. In this paper the author offers an alternative mode of study, drawing on historical- philological practice, which allows students to approach poetry from a perspective that brackets the notion of the personal response 2008 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28692 English Teachers Association of Western Australia restricted
spellingShingle pedagogy
historical-philological
poetry
English teaching
Bender, Stuart
Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson
title Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson
title_full Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson
title_fullStr Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson
title_full_unstemmed Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson
title_short Post-response: Setting limits to the poetry lesson
title_sort post-response: setting limits to the poetry lesson
topic pedagogy
historical-philological
poetry
English teaching
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28692