Literary framework for European teachers

Procedures

• Action Action is no longer the main focus of the text or it has a symbolical/implicit/more general meaning.
• Chronology Subjective and relative chronology. Different timelines and shifts in time.
• Storyline(s) Many interwoven storylines, asking for the creative participation of the reader to put them together.
• Perspective Changing of different perspectives need not be transparent.
• Meaning Implicit, multiple interpretations, several layers of meaning beyond the concrete, diversity of themes and contexts.

Style

• Vocabulary Diversity can be mastered (historical, regional and experimental vocabulary).
• Sentence construction The sentences may be long and complex (historical, regional idiom.
• Stylistic Challenging poetical language, e.g. due to historical distance.

Characters

• Character Characters may be complex, ambiguous and/or unpredictable. There may be symbolic or implicit characterization. Historical context of characters can be complex.
• Number Not important, even if the connections between many different characters are not clearly marked.
• Relations Unpredictable, ambiguous, controversial relations are common.