Open secrets : literature, education, and authority from J-J. Rousseau to J.M. Coetzee / Michael Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Michael, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Education in literature.

Physical Description:

254 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This study reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by exploring the limits of the teachable. Revisiting the Bildungsroman, it studies the pedagogical relationship from the point of view of the mentor rather than of the young hero. Writers examined include Rousseau, Sterne, Goethe, Nietzsche, D. H. Lawrence, F. R. Leavis, and J. M. Coetzee.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Ackowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: the Pedagogical Circle and the 'Open Secret'

PART I

1. Imaginary Authority in Rousseau's Emile

2. The Comedy of Educational Errors: (A) Sterne's Tristram Shandy and (B) C. M. Wieland's History of Agathon

3. Goethe's Open Secrets: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

4. Pedagogy, Fiction, and the Art of Renunciation: Wilhelm Meister's Journeymanship, or the Renunciants

5. Nietzsche as Educator and the Implosion of Bildung

PART II

6. 'The Passion of Instruction': D. H. Lawrence and 'Wholeness' versus Bildung

7. The Importance of being Frank: Criticism, Collaboration, Pedagogy in F. R. Leavis

8. The Novelist, the Lecturer, and the Limits of Persuasion: J. M. Coetzee and Elizabeth Costello on the Lives of Animals and Men

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-250) and index.

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ISBN:

0191525979

9780191525971

OCLC:

476243632