Using Comparative Literature In The ELT Classroom: Underlining The Post-Modern Sister Carrie In Some Girls: My Life In A Harem

KUMLU E.

5th World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES), Rome, İtalya, 5 - 08 Şubat 2013, cilt.116, ss.502-508 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 116
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.248
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Rome
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.502-508
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Sister Carrie, Some Girls, My Life In A Harem, Comparative Literature, City, Theodore Dreiser, Jillian Lauren
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Using comparative literature in the ELT classroom is a powerful tool to teach both the history of different cultures and to foster creative abilities. An example of such a comparative analysis is Theodore Dreiser's masterpiece Sister Carrie(1900) and Jillian Lauren's novel Some Girls: My Life in a Harem(2010). Through a comparative analysis, it can be ascertained that Dreiser's protagonist Caroline Meeber, Sister Carrie, symbolically intersects with Lauren's narrator. Like a post-modern Sister Carrie, Lauren's narrator underlines the historical, social, cultural and psychological forces behind becoming a woman through focusing on the binary opposition between 'the real and the unreal. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.