Old Schools : : Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress / / Ramsey McGlazer.

Old Schools marks out a modernist countertradition. The book makes sense of an apparent anachronism in twentieth-century literature and cinema: a fascination with outmoded, paradigmatically pre-modern educational forms that persists long after they are displaced in progressive pedagogical theories.A...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Lit Z
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 15
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: On counter- progressive pedagogy
  • 1. Surviving Marius: pater’s mechanical exercise
  • 2. Among Fanciulli: poetry, pedantry, and Pascoli’s paedagogium
  • 3. “Copied out big” instruction in Joyce’s Ulysses
  • 4. Salò and the school of abuse
  • 5. Schooling in ruins: Glauber Rocha’s Rome
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index