미국 문학 교육의 방향성과 그 사례 연구

The Direction of American Literature Education and Its Case Study

This essay aims to explore the new direction or American literature education and investigate how the teachers of American literature can achieve this direction effectively I present my American Novel class as a case study and examine several issues and problems teachers might be faced with while teaching. For this purpose, I interrogate my syllabus and teaching methodologies including the use of film and the topics of the class. Especially I discuss Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Bernard Malamud’s “Magic Barrel” to show my teaching methods specifically Through this discussion this article tries to show the new direction of American literature education to catch up with the changes of Korean universities and society.