Title: Secondary worlds : literature teaching and the visual arts /
Authors: Benton, Michael, 1939-
Publisher: Open University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: English literature Study and teaching; Art and literature Great Britain.; Art Study and teaching; Art in education.
Contents: Introduction: Reading and teaching literature: an overview -- Pt. 1. Fiction -- 1. Reading fiction: ten paradoxes -- Stories about stories -- Ten paradoxes -- 2. Secondary worlds -- The space between -- The three-dimensional structure -- The shifting viewpoint -- Imaging -- Towards practice: four elements of response -- 3. Narrative voices: slow-motion readings -- The ways of telling -- Slow-motion readings -- Tom Brown's Schooldays, by Thomas Hughes -- The Otterbury Incident, by C. Day Lewis -- Red Shift, by Alan Garner -- 4. The implied classroom dialogue: fiction in school -- The public dialogue: resources and approaches -- The private dialogue: eavesdropping upon readers -- Pt. 2. Poetry -- 5. Thirteen ways of looking at a poem -- The reader -- The text -- The poem -- 6. The importance of poetry in children's learning -- What poetry offers -- Poems in the classroom -- 7. Poetry for children: a neglected art -- The problem of poetry -- Poetry for children -- 8. Poetry in the classroom -- A methodology for reading and teaching -- Coming to terms with a poem -- Principles of practice -- Pt. 3. Literature, painting and picture-books -- 9. Looking at paintings: representation and response -- Representation and response -- Talking about a painting: Coming from Evening Church, by Samuel Palmer -- Three phases of looking -- 10. Reading paintings... reading poems -- Getting started: paintings and poems in the classroom -- Developing responses: a sense of time and space -- Integrating responses: a poem reading a painting -- The Siesta, by J. F. Lewis: a feminist critique -- Students' initial responses to the painting -- 'Siesta', by Gareth Owen: an approach through narratology -- Students' final discussion of the painting and the poem -- Conclusions and classroom implications -- Responses to paintings: what viewers comment on -- Responses to poems about paintings -- Classroom activities -- 11. William Hogarth: the artist as author and educator.