Didactic approaches to literature

Didactic approaches to literature

Edited by Nathalie Denizot, Jean-Louis Dufays, and Brigitte Louichon
Research in French Language Teaching,No. 11.

Because the didactics of literature is a young field of research, the diversity and vitality of recent work in this area raise questions about the approaches and research methods involved. This book addresses these questions head-on. Thinking of the teaching of literature as a specific subject leads us to think of literature as a (meta) subject within the discipline of French, which can be examined using concepts developed in the teaching of French and other subjects. Didactic approaches to literature must therefore be understood as an open question, relating as much to the nature of these approaches and their history as to the notions and concepts they favor or neglect and the methodologies they employ.

In keeping with the spirit of the AIRDF's "Recherches en didactique du français" collection, the aim here is to bring together summaries produced by various authors in order to provide a necessarily provisional but essential overview of this field of research. To this end, the first section of the book is devoted to the history and definition of the field of didactic approaches to literature, while the second section focuses on the notions and concepts explored in and by research in this field, and the third section examines the approaches and methods used in this work.