Studies on literary interpretation in the classroom

A bibliography

Abstract

The following list of publications presents a collection of studies on “literary interpretation”. It is based on a search of several digital databases, such as PsycINFO, the Web of Science and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Most results come from the database PsycINFO. In addition, the Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English (in Research of the Teaching of English) has been consulted. The list is complemented by using the so called snowball method, and by consulting Irene Pieper and Tanja Janssen.

Publications were selected which contained research works on interpretation of literature in an educational context. The search terms were: “interpretation” com-bined with “literature” or “literary”, “reading” or “meaning construction” and “teaching” or “student”. The research works were published between 1985 and 2012. Only articles published in journals and written in English were included. Ab-stracts were derived from the databases. The list is clearly incomplete and presents not a complete bibliography, but it may be a basis for further studies in the field of “literary interpretation”.