YouTube, a new resource for literary education?

Author(s)

  • Anne-Claire Marpeau ENS Lyon/UBC Vancouver

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.1087

Keywords:

YouTube, BookTube, literary classics, empathetic reading, school norms, literary sociability

Abstract

This paper analyses YouTube videos carrying on classic literature. One can establish a typology of the literary mediation that these productions operate, through a continuum going from the promotion on empathetic reading through BookTubing to the staging of a teacher-centered Literature course. Thus, these videos appear at first glance as a contemporary form of literary mediation, which is no longer based on the traditional vertical transfer of knowledge by parental or teaching authority figures. It is based on horizontal transfer of knowledge which appears as typical of juvenile culture. The relevance of using such videos as a teaching tool can then be questioned, whether it represents an attempt to promote the pleasure of reading, the acquisition of general knowledge or the learning of school contents and methodologies.

Author Biography

  • Anne-Claire Marpeau, ENS Lyon/UBC Vancouver

    Anne-Claire Marpeau holds a PhD in General and Comparative Literature from the École Normale Supérieure (Lyon) and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). She defended her thesis untitled Emma entre les lignes : réceptions, lecteurs et lectrices de Madame Bovary de Flaubert in september 2019. Her doctoral research focuses on “literary reading”, more particularly on the case of Madame Bovary and the various interpretations of its protagonist, seen from a literary, pedagogical and sociological perspective. Her research focuses on theories and practices of reading and interpretation, in particular in the field of cultural and gender studies. She is also part of the editorial committee of the research platform Malaises dans la lecture which examines the reading and teaching of what could be called “problematic texts”.

     

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Published

2021-05-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2020): The sociology of literary mediation

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

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Copyright (c) 2020 Anne-Claire Marpeau

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How to Cite

“YouTube, a new resource for literary education?” (2021) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 14(2), pp. 117–132. doi:10.18352/relief.1087.