What Keeps a Narrative going? Teaching Narrative Interest

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20501807
AutoresRobert J Leblanc (0000-0001-7551-9286, University of Lethbridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen31
Número1
Páginas55-64
Fecha de publicación2024-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaChanging English (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1358-684X • E-ISSN: 1469-3585
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1358684x.2023.2260756
OpenAlexW4387704894
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas20

This article explores the potential of narrative interest for secondary literature education. Narrative is a purposeful construction which is organised with the intent of having effects on readers. For rhetorical narratologists, narrative is driven by the production of narrative gaps – suspense, curiosity, and surprise – which in turn drive reader interest in their potential fulfilment. Drawing from rhetorical-functionalist approaches to literature, I rethink contemporary perspectives on reader response to focus on the pedagogical implications of narrative interest, suggesting how English teachers might use narrative interest to explore narrative openings, the power of narrator perspective, and the ethics of storytelling. This reorientation of instruction balances specific reader responses with the textual production of narrative interest through genre forms, narrator voice, and narrative organisation

Art · Linguistics · Literacy · Literature · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative inquiry · Narrative network · Pedagogy · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Storytelling · Surprise · Communication · Digital Storytelling and Education · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology