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This article aims to examine how and why we can use digital storytelling (DST) to teach literature in the upper secondary classroom, and makes use of Mark Haddon’s complex, multimodal novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2004) as an example. DST is a powerful tool for the 21st century classroom, with the potential to help pupils to become empathetic, creative, inquisitive and critical thinkers. When applied to literature, DST allows pupils to continue the literary text in creative ways by making their own digital story using a basic video editing application such as iMovie or Microsoft Bilder. Such literature-based DST (LDST) distinguishes itself from ordinary DST use in school. The values, qualities and peculiarities of literature offer an imaginative point of departure for new ways of using digital media in school. The Curious Incident is an exceptionally appropriate novel to use with DST, because the novel and the method share numerous features, not least multimodal ones. The narrative structures and aesthetic dimensions of the novel overlap with characteristics of DST. Furthermore, the many hermeneutic dimensions of Haddon’s novel can also be explored by the imaginative possibilities of DST. The definitions and interrelations between literature, text and modality are discussed throughout the article with reference to both philosophers and school didacticians. LDST is remarkable in the way it encourages pupils to sympathise, to interpret, to think critically and to develop their own imaginative ability and language skills. This article argues that LDST is useful in upper secondary education by examining the corresponding educational qualities and possibilities of Haddon’s multimodal novel and DST, and by drawing upon the new education reform in Norway articulated in the Core curriculum of 2020 and the Curriculum in English. Furthermore, the article concludes with the presentation, analysis and assessment of a pilot LDST-project conducted in an upper secondary school in Troms County as part of an MA lector thesis at UiT The Arctic University Norway. Thus, this article’s wider aim is to bring new research perspectives to English education, with a special focus on the use of literature and active forms of learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents conclusion of Paul Muldoon's poetry and language discussing Muldoon's approach to let think others about language in all senses. Topics include Edna Longley and John McAuliffe supported with the preternatural language of Paul Muldoon's poetry; the statement of Jefferson Holdridge about sensitiveness of Muldoon's language.

A literary criticism of the book "One Thousand Things Worth Knowing" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include the principal focus of article is epistemological quandaries tend to outweigh linguistic conundrums; and about it, Osgood's intellectual temperament and linguistic openness constitute a proper antidote to cognitive inertia, linguistic indolence and professorial arrogance.

A literary criticism of the book "Hay" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article having the Muldonic repertoire of formal renovation to Persian ghazal, Malayan pantoum, and Japanese Haiku; and it has the anomalous connecting ‘rhymes' and fertile instabilities in language that generate poetry.

A literary criticism of the book "Maggot" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article engages with larger narratives by tangential method, and continues the bestiary; and Maggot as an aviary consisting of birds including albatross, quail, geese and humming birds expands the imagery of bird poems from the previous collection.

A literary criticism of the book "Horse Latitudes" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article critic William Pratt writes that it tends to be more of a drive towards the polished and the constructive than towards the pitfalls and more deconstructive aspects of language; and Jason B. Jones notes infusion in his ability ‘to the arcane language and strictest forms with urgent meaning.

A literary criticism of the book "Moy Sand and Gravel" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article contains languages, linguistic errancy, popular idioms; and also contains the words of a poet Neologisms, lexical rarities, and Gaelic; and it dedicates Muldoon's children, suggesting a continuation of the vital.

A literary criticism of the book "Meeting the British" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article informs the reader that the volume includes ‘an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare; article offers a cynical design of genocide constitutes a terrifying part; and laying some points including bare prior investments, and Machiavellian potential of objective communication.

A literary criticism of the book "The Annals of Chile" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article incorporates and transcends the conspicuous concentration on languages in earlier volumes and brings it to culmination; and it talks against the margins of post-colonial discourses and they insert themselves creatively and critically into the poetic, critical and political debates concerning the borders of countries including Ireland, England, and America.

A literary criticism of the book "Madoc" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article demands attention to its bisyllabic phonetics, its pentagrammatic belletristicity and its hermeneutic mystery; and article crosses the lines and slouching towards numerous points including dictionaries, encyclopedia, readers, writers.

A literary criticism of the book "Quoof" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article presents in the unintelligibility of its title the importance of language in Muldoon's fourth volume of poetry; and suggests a type of poetic language which engenders heterogeneity and signifies by other means, and puzzles and provokes.

A literary criticism of the book "Why Brownlee Left " by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article having Byron's peregrinations in literature and life, and posit a viable template for Muldoon's language and concerns; article seems to reflect upon the complexities of origin, ancestry and identity; and it explores the terrains of exit, emigration and effacement.

A literary criticism of the book "New Weather" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include article precipitated upon the poetic scene with ‘all the appearance of a monstrous refrain; the quirkiness of the extended italicisation and its many implications including citation, irony, and distance; and highlights the paradoxicality and aporetic operations of language.

A literary criticism of the book "Mules" by Ruben Moi is presented. Topics include in article that it can be understood as a meditation upon the fusions of poetic language and its many realities; article discusses questioning of the outcome of the artistic process and the resultant artefact; and evokes sterility and stagnation of a fated and pessimistic quality.

An introduction of Paul Muldoon's outlandish fourth volume of poetry "Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry" by Ruben Moi is presented which captures the uncanny side of the linguistic universe of Muldoon's poetry.