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Article: Literature in 3D or where is the culture in this text?(teaching foreign language literature)
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Abstract
"Literature in 3D or Where is the Culture in this Text?" suggests the teaching of one literary text per semester in Foreign Languages curricula, in this case Frank Wedekind's 1891 Spring Awakening, to excavate its intertextual references and to study its cultural context. The main text is read in the original, and the intertextual references are read in English. Although this is an unusual approach to teaching Foreign Languages and Foreign Language Literatures, students become engaged in their own development as readers and interpreters of literature and culture. At the end of the course, they are able to negotiate works and ideas that shaped not only ...