Studying and Teaching W.C. Falkner, William Faulkner, and Digital Literacy (eBook)

Personal Democracy in Social Combination

Koichi Fujino (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
260 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498547482 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores ways to study and teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL students in today’s digital environment. Through these activities, ESL students are expected to comprehend the literature of the American South as the cultural phenomenon that is connected to their own social formations.

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This book explores the ways to teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL (English as a Second Language) students in today's digital environment. William Faulkner's great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, wrote romantic literary works, and William Faulkner critically uses the motifs of his great-grandfather's works to establish his literary world. Applying Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical theory, this book theoretically explains how these two authors imagine the social formations of the American South differently in their literary works. The coined term, social combination-which is defined as the individuals' mutual effort to have equal relationships for a certain time-is used as a key term to examine how these two authors depict the characters' personal relationships. William Faulkner employs his characters' social combination as a resistance against the American South's romantic illusions that are represented by William Clark Falkner's literary works. William Faulkner's historical perspective is beneficial for today's ESL students, who explore their new egalitarian formations in their digitally expanded world. The last part of this study outlines how an American literary teacher can connect the works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner when teaching ESL students by using today's digital environment. Using three digital platforms-Moodle, WordPress, and Google Drive-a teacher composes egalitarian relationships among class members and inspires students' autonomous discussion on these two authors' works. Through these activities, ESL students are expected to comprehend that the literature of the American South is not only the historical development of the foreign region, but the phenomenon that is connected to their own social formations.

Autor

Koichi Fujino is professor of American literature and culture at Seinan Gakuin University.

Inhalt

Chapter One: Progress from Monologism to Dialogism: Studying Two Fa(u)lkners’ WorksIntruder in the Dust Social Combination in Class: How to Teach Two Fa(u)lkners’ Works and Digital Literacy to ESL StudentsConclusion: Personal Democracy in Social Combination

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 13 Illustrations including: - 11 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American Literature • Digital Literacy • ESL • Intersubjectivity • Mikhail Bakhtin • pedagogy for ESL • Southern Literature • William Clark Falkner • William Faulkner
• ISBN-13: 9781498547482 / 9781498547482