{"id":10012,"date":"2021-05-24T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=10012"},"modified":"2021-05-24T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:56:28","slug":"english-professor-publishes-article-in-childrens-literature-in-education-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/05\/24\/english-professor-publishes-article-in-childrens-literature-in-education-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"English Professor Publishes Article in Children’s Literature in Education Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Assistant Professor of English Tara Moore\u2019s article,<\/span> \u201c’Death of the Author’ in the Literature Classroom and John Green\u2019s The Fault in Our Stars,\u201d<\/span><\/a> was recently published in the international quarterly journal, Children’s Literature in Education.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy students in EN263 Young Adult (YA) Literature gave me insight into the ideas I discuss in the article,\u201d said Moore. \u201cIt\u2019s about how readers don\u2019t need to seek out an author\u2019s explanation of their work – we can create meaning ourselves if our argument is strong enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While following authors on social media may deepen students\u2019 engagement with their assigned reading, it also threatens to subdue students\u2019 own interpretations of the authors\u2019 texts, argues Moore. Her essay explains how educators can introduce basic aspects of Roland Barthes\u2019s, \u201cThe Death of the Author\u201d manifesto to their students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Barthes\u2019s concept helps students to recalibrate the value of an author\u2019s biography and the author\u2019s interpretation when analyzing a text. An example of this takes place for Hazel, the protagonist in John Green\u2019s, \u201cThe Fault in Our Stars,\u201d who demonstrates sharp literary critique informed by Barthes\u2019s theory when she engages with most texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moore has offered her students a new perspective on \u201cThe Fault in Our Stars\u201d by talking about the best-selling novel as a literary text and now teaches reader empowerment as part of her class.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy students have such fascinating ideas, so it is wonderful that they have the power to build their arguments and don\u2019t have to worry about whether the author of a text would agree with them or not,” said Moore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Assistant Professor of English Tara Moore\u2019s article, \u201c’Death of the Author’ in the Literature Classroom and John Green\u2019s The Fault in Our Stars,\u201d was recently published in the international quarterly journal, Children’s Literature in Education. \u201cMy students in EN263 Young Adult (YA) Literature gave me insight into the ideas I discuss in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":10013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[197,1350,1397,1396],"class_list":["post-10012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-the-death-of-an-author","tag-the-fault-in-our-stars","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10018,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions\/10018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}