Didactic approaches to literature

Didactic approaches to literature

edited by Nathalie Denizot, Jean-Louis Dufays and Brigitte Louichon
Recherches en didactique du français, n°11.

Because the didactics of literature is a young field of research, the diversity and vitality of recent work in this area raises the question of the approaches and research methods involved. It is at the heart of this questioning that this book takes up. Thinking of the didactics of literature as a specific content leads us to think of literature as a (meta)content of the discipline of French, which can be questioned using concepts developed in the didactics of French and in other didactics. Approches didactiques de la littérature must therefore be understood as an open question, dealing as much with the nature of these approaches, their history, as with the notions and concepts they privilege or neglect, and the methodologies they call upon.

In keeping with the spirit of the AIRDF's "Recherches en didactique du français" collection, the aim here is to bring together synthesis elements produced by various authors to provide an inevitably provisional, but indispensable, assessment of this field of research. To this end, the first part of the book is devoted to the history and definition of the field of didactic approaches to literature, while the second deals with the notions and concepts used in and by research in this field, and the third examines the approaches and methods used in this work.