Education and the Boarding School Novel : : The Work of José Régio / / by Filipe Delfim Santos.

• VerfasserIn: Santos, Filipe Delfim.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 158 p.)

"In this book, the author contributes to genre theory, space theory (suggesting allotopia for heterotopia, or describing hypertopia versus hypotopia), the study of authorship, the formation and education novels, and develops such concepts as Leidensgeschichte or the Telemachus complex. Based on...

Table of Contents

• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• The Study of School Fiction for Educational Research
• Types of Autobiographical Narratives
• Autobiographical School Novels as Sources for Educational Studies
• The Demise of the History of Education
• Ambiguities of the Novel
• The Factitious and the Fictitious—The Death of the Narrator
• Genre in Narratives about Growing Up
• The Jugendroman and the Entwicklungsroman
• The Künstlerroman
• The Schulroman and the Internatsroman
• De-School Novels
• Non-School Novels
• The English School Novel
• Mapping the Literary Genres on Youth and Schooling
• Boarding Schools as ‘Special Places’ or Allotopias
• Foucault on Places That Are Special for Their Power Relations
• Sovereign Power
• Seclusion, Involuntary Membership and Surveillance, Old and New
• Allotopias as Spaces of Otherness
• The Ver Sacrum
• Restricted Eligibility and Transience
• Charting the Allotopical Attributes
• Anomalous Categories
• Allotopias and Hypertopias
• Gradations of Hypertopia
• Hypertopia Inverted: The Hypoplaces, or Underwheres
• The Hyperreal Delusion
• Conclusions on Foucault’s Other Spaces
• Gender Wars—On Schools in Literature
• Literature Goes to School: The Literary Conventions of the Boarding School Novel
• Masculinist Thinkers and Novelists: Measuring Manliness
• The Female School Novel
• The Voiceless Adolescent
• José Régio and the Portuguese Autobiographical School Novel
• The Theacher-Author
• José Régio’s Time and Works
• Presença Aesthetics and the Vitalist Ideal
• The Departure from A Renascença Portuguesa
• A Famous Quarrel: Does Art Need to Be Socially Useful?
• Artistic Vanguards versus Völkisch Art
• The Subject of Friendships among Boys and Young Men
• Fathers, Mentors, and Companions
• The Reviewers of A Drop of Blood
• Various Kinds of Boyhoods
• Nostalgia and Saudade
• The Path of Pain: Creative Melancholia
• The Telemachus Complex
• An Educational Analysis of A Drop of Blood
• Internarrativity and Historical Allusions
• Perceptions of ‘Other Spaces’
• Lelito’s Rituals of Initiation at the Colégio
• Prefects and Fags
• Pairing Boys
• The Mark of Cain
• The Psychic Masochism of Régio
• Régio versus Nietzsche
• Régio’s Night Walk in the Gardens of Desire
• Conclusions
• The Boarding Challenge
• The Old House as Künstlerroman
• Régio’s Stand in Portuguese Culture
• The Contribution of Régio’s Novel to the Educational Debate
• Appendix: A Short Index of Youth and School Literature
• References
• Index.