To browse Academia. This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and postcanonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.
Narrative Conference offers a multi-and interdisciplinary forum for addressing all dimensions of narrative and representation. The problem of this paper is many-sided and exists for culturally sensitive language learners and teachers. It may be identified as difficulties arising from a rather narrow treatment of culture, including its very concept, and respective deficiencies in EFL.
These problems can be possibly resolved through a flexible use of narrative in language teaching, while treating culture as a mode of life of a geographically and ethnically identifiable community whose heritage is encoded in its language. As literature enhances the expressiveness of the linguistic code in view of the artistic principles employed, imaginative literature as a resource is virtually inexhaustible.
Discussions of a story and character may be extended to a more professional consideration of the structure of the work - the conflict, its other components, the literary technique, language and style. Questions of culture specifically may tackle the scenery, behaviours and other identifiable features, but, most importantly, can exploit the language for routine senses of the words, for their more suggestive meaning and for the most delicate points of usage, all of which can be accompanied by word stories.
These are the questions which constitute the cultural potential of language and from which the learners can profit the most. There is also the instigated problem of the precarious status of the humanities at present, the resolution of which depends on the point of view taken. The conclusions are based on classroom research and on research into uses of English, especially on a study of literature as a use of language. What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read?
