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Literary circle

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A literary circle is a group of individuals who gather to discuss, analyze, and critique literary works. These gatherings foster a collaborative environment for sharing interpretations, enhancing understanding of texts, and promoting literary appreciation among participants.
lightbulbAbout this topic
A literary circle is a group of individuals who gather to discuss, analyze, and critique literary works. These gatherings foster a collaborative environment for sharing interpretations, enhancing understanding of texts, and promoting literary appreciation among participants.

Key research themes

1. How do Literature Circles facilitate collaborative sensemaking and literary comprehension among students?

This theme investigates how literature circles operate as collaborative, student-centered pedagogical strategies that promote meaning-making, engagement, critical thinking, and comprehension in literary studies. It examines the role of peer-led discussion, role assignments, and open-ended dialogue as mechanisms through which students actively construct interpretations of texts, thereby enhancing their literary understanding and related cognitive and social skills.

Key finding: The study provides empirical evidence that students engaging in open-ended, peer-led discussions within literature circles adopt exploratory stances and multiple perspectives to make sense of complex literary events (e.g.,... Read more
Key finding: This work demonstrates the practical implementation of literature circles with defined roles (e.g., Connector, Questioner, Literary Luminary), showing how role differentiation facilitates focused analysis and collaborative... Read more
Key finding: Using a quasi-experimental mixed-methods design, this study found that literature circles significantly improve Grade 9 students' literary comprehension, promotingskills such as engagement, peer learning, and analytical... Read more
Key finding: This study describes the theoretical foundation and classroom application of literature circles with rotating roles, illustrating how alternating roles contribute to higher-level cognitive tasks like summarizing, analyzing,... Read more
Key finding: In a bilingual classroom setting, literature circles empowered students to take ownership of literary discussions, promoting social interaction, narrative construction, and cultural identity negotiation. The study stresses... Read more

2. How can digital adaptations and technology integration enhance literature circle practices and language learning?

This research theme focuses on the modernization of literature circles via digital tools and online platforms to respond to challenges such as remote learning and diverse student needs. It explores how digital literature circles (Literature Circles 2.0) leverage technology to foster self-regulated learning, intercultural communication, and engagement while supporting traditional collaborative practices.

Key finding: The study found that implementing Literature Circles 2.0 in an EFL context significantly improved English majors' comprehension of literary texts as well as their online self-regulated language learning skills. Digital... Read more
Key finding: This paper advances the traditional literature circle model by integrating 21st-century literacies such as digital collaboration, multiculturalism, and intercultural communication. It proposes new roles (e.g., Trend-Spotter,... Read more

3. What role do literary communities and networks play in supporting writers’ development and collaborative literary practices?

This theme examines non-classroom literary circles and communities as social networks and communities of practice that foster skill development, peer support, and collaborative learning among writers. It explores their significance in creative writing pedagogy, cultural capital transmission, professional recognition, and literary production dynamics.

Key finding: By studying the UNESCO Cities of Literature, this research identifies how informal literary communities and networks serve as formative contexts for writers' professional development. It highlights 'communities of practice'... Read more
Key finding: This complementary study emphasizes the importance of literary friendships, writing groups, mentoring, and informal networks within literary communities in shaping writers' skills and career trajectories. It critiques current... Read more

All papers in Literary circle

Overview of Antifantasy project which explores fantasy literature through a lens that subverts existing genre conventions, using metafiction and irony to critique romanticized tropes. Its philosophical framework as a speculative cosmology... more
In his collections of letters and poems, Sidonius often mentions the circulation of his writings, usually by himself, meaning that his works, like those of his friends, were self-published. Sidonius did not provide each of his friends... more
This article investigates the construction of cultural masculinity in the memoirs concerned with the Junimea literary society, founded in 1863 in Iași, especially in writings by Iacob Negruzzi, George Panu, Ioan Slavici, Titu Maiorescu,... more
The article reviews the history of Pushkin's participation in the activities of the Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature, one of the most significant literary and social institutions of the 1810s and the first half of the 1820s.... more
Drawing partially on Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu’s suggestion that the interwar Romanian novel depicts mental illness, this paper aims to analyze the representations of such psychological ailments in Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu’s A Concert of... more
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