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Tales out of school : gender, longing, and the teacher in fiction and film / Jo Keroes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 164 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585128685
  • 9780585128689
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tales out of school.DDC classification:
  • 813.008/0352372 21
LOC classification:
  • PS374.T43 K47 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 17.93
Online resources:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
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.Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index.

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.

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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.

English.

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