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Rhetorical Narrative Theory: An Interpretive Framework for Literary Analysis in the High School English Classroom

Brewster, Hilary
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374061572

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This paper centers on a ten week teacher-research inquiry study in which I taught a high school English Children’s Literature elective course at a local independent school. Unlike most secondary English teachers, I made my theoretical framework explicit, and sought to scaffold the terms and concepts of rhetorical narrative theory with our classroom texts. Data are drawn from student journals, essays, and creative projects during this class, as well as my teacher-researcher journal. The research objective was to investigate what happens when secondary students engage with rhetorical narrative theory and use this approach to interpret literature. Data analysis indicates that students were able to translate and integrate this particular interpretive language, and that quite often, I as their teacher merely provided the vocabulary for their pre existing familiarity with the function and form of narrative. Additionally, the data suggest that using children’s literature in a secondary classroom allows for independent, deep, thematic textual analysis, which, in turn, is a space primed for narrative theory pedagogy. This study suggests that rhetorical narrative theory, at least when combined with children’s literature, is a symbiotic pedagogical and critical match for secondary English students.
Barbara Kiefer (Advisor)
Mollie Blackburn (Committee Member)
David Herman (Committee Member)
246 p.
Education; Language Arts; Literature; Pedagogy; Secondary Education
Secondary English Education; literary theory pedagogy; literary analysis pedagogy; rhetorical narrative theory; childrens literature;

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  • Brewster, H. (2013). Rhetorical Narrative Theory: An Interpretive Framework for Literary Analysis in the High School English Classroom [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374061572

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brewster, Hilary. Rhetorical Narrative Theory: An Interpretive Framework for Literary Analysis in the High School English Classroom . 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374061572.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brewster, Hilary. "Rhetorical Narrative Theory: An Interpretive Framework for Literary Analysis in the High School English Classroom ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374061572

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