Schoolhouse gothic :: haunted hallways and predatory pedagogues in late twentieth-century American literature and scholarship /

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 f...

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1. Verfasser: Truffin, Sherry R.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung: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 ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 182 pages)
Format: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.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443806633
1443806633
9786612190490
6612190493
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