In the classroom, where many students hesitate to have dialogues with other students on a certain literary work, feeling some oddness, even if they are interested in the work, what kind of literary education is possible? Taking Kokoro by Soseki Natsume as an example, I tried to consider this problem. Kokoro is well-known and attracts many readers, but I had a hard time to make the students have dialogues with each other. The class was over, but the problem was still left unsolved.
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