| Description |
1 online resource (x, 164 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Heloise and Abelard: The Lure of the Sexy Mind 17 -- 2. The Crime of Miss Jean Brodie 33 -- 3. It's a Jungle Out There: Juvenile Violence and the Perils of Love 53 -- 4. Race and Representation in To Sir with Love, Conrack, and A Lesson Before Dying 71 -- 5. Grown Women and Little Men: The "Other Mother" and the Knowing Child in The Turn of the Screw and Little Man Tate 90 -- 6. Pygmalion Refused: Language, Romance, and Reciprocity in Educating Rita and Children of a Lesser God 105 -- 7. Truth and Consequences 120 |
| Summary |
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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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American fiction -- History and criticism
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Teacher-student relationships in literature.
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English fiction -- History and criticism
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Gender identity in literature.
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Teachers in motion pictures.
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Education in literature.
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Authority in literature.
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Teachers in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Authority in literature
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Desire in literature
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Education in literature
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English fiction
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Gender identity in literature
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Teacher-student relationships in literature
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Teachers in literature
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Teachers in motion pictures
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Roman
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Lehrer
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Schüler
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Film
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Leerkrachten.
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Letterkunde.
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Films.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Erotiek.
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Engels.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585128685 |
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9780585128689 |
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