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Narratology in Classroom: Using Narrative Metalepsis in Teaching Literature at Upper Secondary Level

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Author

  • Liviu Lutas

Summary, in English

In this paper I explore the tension between research in narratology and teaching narratology. My main concern is to study how the research in this field can be used in teaching. The study is made on pupils at upper secondary level in Sweden. I study the pupils’ reactions to one kind of frame-breaking narrative device: the narrative metalepsis. In doing so, I question some theorists according to whom narratology should not be used at upper secondary level. Especially frame-breaking devices can cause problems for students according to some studies. My aim is to challenge this standpoint, and to promote the use of frame-breaking devices in teaching about the narrator and the different possible narrative levels. The metalepsis concerns film but from an intermedial point of view and with an intermedial follow-up.

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

161-164

Publication/Series

Critical Discourse and Linguistic Variation

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Editura Universitatii Stefan cel Mare, Suceava

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Narratology
  • literary didactics
  • metalepsis

Status

Published