The Teaching of S. Coleridge’s Poem Work Without Hope Through the Theory of Reading Reception and Translating Poetry Practice

(Tutor University, Greece)

Abstract: The didactic scenario has as its primary aim the approach of translated poetry teaching in Secondary Education through interdisciplinarity, interculturalism and the comparative juxtaposition of poems and literary movements. According to reader response theory, the work is open to interpretive versions variety and is shaped by the reader’s participation, while in each era it is signified differently. Our attempt is to follow the hermeneutic approach in order to see how modern poetry is connected to contemporary social reality and specifically the issue of labour. At the same time, the second aim is to make comments, with the help of the students, to the translation given and to see the act of translation as an exercise and play process of literature in the target language (Greek), through the comparison of words in the original and the translation test. As an ultimate goal we possess the deepening and better understanding of the literary text, besides the linguistic enrichment of students through translation activities efforts.

Key words: social life, romance, reading response, translation, interculturalism

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