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Literature in Language Education
This book offers an account of existing research and practice, and aims to
stimulate further research and informed pedagogic innovation in the field
of literature and language teaching, with special but not exclusive reference
to foreign language studies. Colin MacCabe’s pronouncement was no doubt
somewhat premature, and more specific: I have pruned ‘English’ and ‘in
English’ from either end of the quotation. Jacques Derrida deliberately
overstates the case too. Nevertheless, this book in its present form has
been made possible by the historical dominance and later removal of
English Literature from its privileged central educational position in favour
of a more open and relativistic, linguistically inspired image of writing(s),
a ‘plurality of writings’ (MacCabe 1984), a movement in which MacCabe
himself featured notoriously in 1983, before – prefiguring one argument of
this book – moving from literature into cultural studies as Director of the
British Film Institute. Such a move was prepared by Derrida and others,
taking various linguistic perspectives on text, ‘literary’ or otherwise, the
educational implications of which are still being elaborated here and
elsewhere. The key development was to see literary text as best studied
against the background of other texts, and all texts as socially situated. Thus
‘Literature into cultural studies’ arguments are central to reviews of the field
offered by Easthope 1991 (viewed more positively) and Bergonzi 1990
(more negatively).
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