Tales out of school
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Jo Keroes's scope is wide: she examines the teacher as represented in fiction and film in works ranging from the twelfth-century letters of Abelard and Heloise to contemporary films such as Dangerous Minds and Educating Rita. And from the twelfth through the twentieth century, Keroes shows, the teaching encounter is essentially erotic. ; Tracing the roots of eros from cultural as well as psychological perspectives, Keroes defines erotic in terms broader than the merely sexual. She analyzes ways in which teachers serve as convenient figures on whom to map conflicts about gender, power, and desire. To show how portrayals of men and women differ, even in situations that are very much alike, she examines pairs of texts, using a film or a novel with a woman protagonist (Up the Down Staircase, for example) as counterpoint to one featuring a male teacher (Blackboard Jungle) or The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie balanced against Dead Poets Society.
Title |
Tales out of school : gender, longing, and the teacher in fiction and film / Jo Keroes. [electronic resource] |
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Publisher |
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press |
Creation Date |
c1999 |
Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-155) and index. English |
Content |
Heloise and Abelard: the lure of the sexy mind -- Crime of Miss Jean Brodie -- It's a jungle out there: juvenile violence and the perils of love -- Race and representation in To Sir with Love, Conrack, and A Lesson Before Dying -- Grown women and little men: the "Other Mother" and the knowing child in The Turn of the Screw and Little Man Tate -- Pygmalion refused: language, romance, and reciprocity in Educating Rita and Children of a Lesser God -- Truth and Consequences. |
Extent |
1 online resource (x, 164 p. ) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010701870205171 |
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- American fiction History and criticism.
- Teacher-student relationships in literature.
- English fiction History and criticism.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Teachers in motion pictures.
- Education in literature.
- Authority in literature.
- Teachers in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Teachers English-speaking countries.
- Gender identity in motion pictures.
- American fiction History and criticism English-speaking countries
- Desire in literature
- Gender identity in motion pictures
- Teacher-student relationships in literature History and criticism
- English fiction
- Teachers
- Gender identity in literature
- Teachers in motion pictures
- Education in literature
- Authority in literature
- Teachers in literature
- American Literature
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- nne Teachers in moving-pictures
- Faculty (Education)
- Instructors
- School teachers
- Schoolteachers
- Schools in literature
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