{"product_id":"charles-dickenss-a-christmas-carol-in-prose-as-the-basis-of-an-instructional-unit-von-volker-lorenz","title":"Charles Dickens's \"A Christmas Carol in Prose\"  as the basis of an instructional unit","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, http:\/\/www.uni-jena.de\/ (Institut für Anglistik\/Amerikanistik), course: Literaturvermittlung im Englischunterricht, language: English, abstract: While the traditional use of literature at schools usually relies on interpretation and the existence of a ¿correct¿ way of interpreting the text, more recent theories like the aesthetics of reception focus on the dynamic interaction between the text and its readers, aiming at a type of aesthetic reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens¿s novel of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge being visited by the three ghosts of Christmas and turning over to a new leaf is probably one of the best-known English novels; it is alluded to in many other pieces of literature, in films and even comics. This, banal as it may be, is already the first reason for choosing A Christmas Carol as a topic, since all the gags and allusions elsewhere would not be understood without some knowledge of Dickens¿s novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading experiences also play an important role when it comes to motivation: other classic novels by Dickens like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations or David Copperfield, or their film adaptations may serve as a motivation for reading A Christmas Carol, or vice versa. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, apart from conveying a moral message, Dickens¿s story also portraits the Victorian age of Britain and its nuisances as vivid as only few other novels, which stays in mind far better than only hearing a report.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783638954723\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783638954723","offer_id":39428027285597,"sku":"9783638954723","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/08c41ffd-0930-4cda-91f4-1869030e8409.jpg?v=1777613617","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/charles-dickenss-a-christmas-carol-in-prose-as-the-basis-of-an-instructional-unit-von-volker-lorenz","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}