Thus the team’s teaching model becomes a hotchpotch of ideas, which is no help for the teaching of Huxley’s long-time bestseller. Brave New World is a text too valuable both in literary and didactic respects to be instrumentalized in this way. The authors focus on additional material, namely texts, films such as The Truman Show (director Peter Weir, released in 1998) or audiocassettes, which all move away from the primary text rather than help to understand it. Of course, these few extracts are far from forming a coherent whole. Luz/Prischtt for example only choose excerpts from chapters 2, 4, and 18. During the last few years, three comprehensive teaching guides have been published, (1) which all share one problem still unsolved, namely that of selecting individual chapters and kernel passages for classroom use. In Advanced Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) Willi RealĪldous Huxley’s Brave New World probably is the most influential novel in the history of foreign language teaching, which in our age of globalization is more topical than ever. It is reproduced here by courtesy of the LIT publishing house (Münster).Īldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a Parody and Satire of Wells, Ford, Freud and Behaviourism

The following article, which was originally published in the Aldous Huxley Annual, presents an approach both systematic and demanding to teaching the author's long-seller. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a Parody and Satire of Wells, Ford, Freud and Behaviourism in Advanced Foreign Language Teaching (FLT)

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