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The Age of Appreciation: Reading and Teaching Classic Literature in Australia in the Early Twentieth Century

Author(s) -

Patrick Buckridge

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

australian literary studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1837-6479

pISSN - 0004-9697

DOI - 10.20314/als.3f0273bc66

Subject(s) - artificiality , reading (process) , project commissioning , publishing , mainstream , institution , literature , sociology , history , social science , political science , art , law , epistemology , philosophy

Literary appreciation was being taught, valued and practiced in schools but the essence of appreciation faded away in twentieth century. Despite the emphasis to increase capacity to enjoy classic literature by teaching, or encouraging better, careful, attentive and sensitive reading, teachers experienced difficulties in understanding and applying appreciation in the classroom probably due to conceptual ambiguity.

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