소설 교육의 오래된 미래

• 영문명: Ancient Futures of Teaching Novels: In Search of the Possibility of the (Im)possible Close Reading
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 우정민(Jung Min Woo)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제26집 1호, 239~274쪽, 전체 36쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.04.30

영문 초록

This paper is an attempt to answer a simple but difficult question: how do we teach novels in the midst of the fierce competition in the current world. It has been a half century since the death of the novel was first declared; and now it is no longer news that literature courses―let alone novel reading classes―are rapidly disappearing from our university curriculum. In order to confront such a crisis, various analytical strategies have been suggested and tested in the recent literary studies, among which Franco Moretti’s timely proposal on “distant reading,” has become an attractive option for teaching novels. Handy summaries and video clips are flooding trendy high-tech university classrooms and subsequently drowning the old-fashioned method of traditional literary education. However, I would argue that the literary courses, in particular the fiction curriculum, ought to preserve the ancient methodology of close reading despite the unassailable pressure from the globally swiping neoliberal rat race. Close reading, as ancient it may sound, would let us see the novel futures of the novels as well as the novelty of the world.

목차

I. 서문: 소설의 죽음과 소설 수업의 죽음

II. 소설의 탄생과 부흥, 그리고 죽음과 부활

III. 자세히 읽기와 멀리서 읽기

IV. 멀리서 보고 가까이 읽기 (부제: 얼마나 어떻게 읽고 무엇을 할까?)

V. 독서의 재발견, 참여의 탄생

키워드

소설의 죽음 영소설 교육 신자유주의적 경쟁 멀리서 읽기 가까이 읽기 the death of the novel teaching English novels neoliberal competition distant reading close reading