Kuttainen, Victoria, Hansen, Claire, and Archer-Lean, Clare (2024) Framing the Work of Literature. Journal of Language Literature and Culture, 71 (1).

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[Extract] The study of English is evolving, and the classroom is at the forefront of witnessing its flux and transformation. The Work of Literature: Literary Studies in the Classroom engages in extended inquiry into the work of English within its sites of learning in these times of rapid change. For scholars of literature, as Ellie Chambers and Marshall Gregory observed as far back as 2006, ‘teaching is becoming less a job and more an intellectual activity worthy of serious consideration and investigation’.Footnote1 Arguably, literary scholars and teachers have always used the classroom as a living laboratory of ideas but increasing pressures and cultural shifts have contributed to a sense of accelerating change. This special issue of the Journal of Language, Literature and Culture asked scholar-practitioners of English what questions and issues drive their practices in the classroom and how the work of English is changing.

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