Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Contributors xv
6. Chapter 1. Empirical approaches to the study of literature in learning environments 1
7. Part I. Reading processes in communities of practices
8. Chapter 2. Learning from literature 19
9. Chapter 3. Authorizing the reader in the classroom 39
10. Chapter 4. Transforming readings 57
11. Part II. Reading processes in EFL/L2 contexts
12. Chapter 5. Enhancing responses to literary texts with L2 learners 83
13. Chapter 6. Empirical stylistics in an EFL teaching context 105
14. Chapter 7. Literary themes across cultures 125
15. Chapter 8. Of learning and poetics 151
16. Chapter 9. Literature and the role of background knowledge for EFL learners 169
17. Part III. Creative writing, corpus, and empirical stylistics as learning tools
18. Chapter 10. Effects of creative writing on adolescent students’ literary response 193
19. Chapter 11. ESL students’ perceptions of creative and academic writing 213
20. Chapter 12. Empirical stylistics as a learning and research tool in the study of narrative viewpoint 227
21. Chapter 13. Point and CLiC 253
22. Chapter 14. Literary awareness in a high-school EFL learning environment 271
23. Index 303