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Teaching literary theory without opaqueness.
Abstract
Theory is usually rendered obscure by its own discourses. Classroom experience and empirical observation show that abstract teaching of literary theory generates confusion in students' minds, and the best way to elucidate any literary theory is to dwell less on its abstractness and more on the procedures and steps needed to apply it to a literary text. In such a heuristic approach to theory teaching, different theories are simplified and combined into a strategy for the interpretation of texts. The heuristic method means that literary theory is something that must be applied, not passively learned about.
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