The Teaching of Contemporary American Literature at the Pictorial Turn

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.174How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Teaching, American Literature, visual turn, In Country

Abstract

Professor W.J.T.Mitchell announced that we are at the pictorial turn, which can be reflected in our daily life and the humanities field. The fields of contemporary American literature and literary criticism have been affected by such a visual turn. In the face of the change, it is necessary to integrate a visual perspective in the teaching of contemporary American literature. The essay will discuss the pictorial turn in contemporary American literature and explain how to carry out literature teaching with the case analysis of the appreciation of a contemporary American novel called In Country in class, expecting that it will help teachers form a new teaching perspective in China. A new perspective will bring a new understanding of a literary text and such a reading might cause a turn in literary criticism. Thus, the article is expected to provide teachers a new way to study American Literature.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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