Tales out of school : gender, longing, and the teacher in fiction and film

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Label

Tales out of school : gender, longing, and the teacher in fiction and film

Title remainder

gender, longing, and the teacher in fiction and film

Statement of responsibility

Jo Keroes

Creator

• Keroes, Jo

Subject

• Authority in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Desire in literature
• Education in literature
• English fiction -- History and criticism
• Gender identity in literature
• American fiction -- History and criticism
• Teacher-student relationships in literature
• Teachers -- English-speaking countries
• Teachers in literature
• Teachers in motion pictures
• Gender identity in motion pictures

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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
• 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813.008/0352372

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS374.T43

LC item number

K47 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography