미디어 시대의 문학교육

Abstract

The relationship between literature education and media education should have a virtuous cycle for enhancing the students` multi-literacy and cultural literacy. However, it is often thought that media culture including film, mass media, internet etc. has a bad influence upon the minds of youths. On the other hand, literature is now so boring to them and may not have much say in the development of their cultural literacy. This paper deals this situation from a viewpoint of literature education, but eventually tries to help the students to get an advanced literacy not only of literatur e but also of media culture. I suggest that literature/media education for media/literature education is needed in order to develop multi-literacy. So I give an example of teaching literature/media through media/literature for enhancing the student`s multi-literacy which is composed by combining various texts of literature and mass media. Actually I give a comprehensive and integrated series of lecture on literature by using multimedia that is related the literary text in terms of theme, subject matter, morals, etc. Then I ask college students to submit a report which shows their own literary or cultural experiences in reference to the text and presents the inter-textuality with other literary or cultural texts. It may look very strange to those who teach literature only by explaining literary texts itself with concrete exegesis on them. However, in my class, a lot of students write unique essays of their own and some of them show high level of cultural literacy. They find their abilities and potentials as so called `prosumers`. They navigate by the internet, follow the hypertexts, and combine them with their own ideas and experiences in relation to the literary text. Thus, multi-media in the literary classroom should be used not just to motivate the students, but to develop their potentials and literacies as producers and consumers in the age of new media.