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1 online resource (viii, 182 pages) |
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The Schoolhouse Gothic -- "I'm out of your filing cabinet now": adolescent angst in the Schoolhouse Gothic of Stephen King -- "I ain't taking no test": the prophet vs. the schoolteacher in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away -- "No measuring string": the slavemaster/schoolteacher in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- "No way to refute such logic": teaching as misogynist indoctrination and 'Soul Murder' in Joyce Carol Oates's Beasts -- "What it is to be subject to that power": the dangers of posture in David Mamet's Oleanna -- Interrogating the Schoolhouse Gothic |
| Summary |
The "Schoolhouse Gothic," undertaken by insiders and outsiders to the academy alike and embodied both in literature and in academic discourse, draws on Gothic metaphors and themes in representing and interrogating contemporary American schools and educators. Curses from the past take the form of persistent power inequities (of race, gender, class, and age) and, rather ironically, the very Enlightenment that was to save the moderns from rigid, ancient, mystified hierarchies. In Schoolhouse Got .. |
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American fiction 20th century History and criticism |
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Education in literature |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American History and criticism |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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Education in literature.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism
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C 1900 -.
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Cultural studies.
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Moral & social purpose of education.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Education in literature
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
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18.06 Anglo-American literature.
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Gothic (subculture)
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Literature.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443806633 |
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1443806633 |
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9786612190490 |
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6612190493 |
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