American Boarding School Fiction 1928 1981

Author : Alexander H. Pitofsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476616629

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American Boarding School Fiction, 1928-1981 by Alexander H. Pitofsky Pdf

When boarding-school fiction became popular in the 19th century, it tended to be warm and nostalgic, filled with sporting events, practical jokes, and schemes to get even with campus bullies. All of that changed in the era discussed in this book. Holden Caulfield, the narrator of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, drops out of one prep school and is expelled from two others. The conflicts between students in John Knowles's Devon School novels become so heated that two young men die. And in the controversial novel Good Times/Bad Times, James Kirkwood portrays the headmaster of a private academy as closeted, deeply neurotic, and infatuated with an 18-year-old who has recently enrolled at his school. In spite of their unsettling images of anguish and cruelty, these and other American boarding-school novels have attracted large audiences and influenced countless school narratives in fiction, drama, television and film. Many books have been written about British school stories. This is the first study that explores the history of boarding-school fiction in the United States.

Author : Alexander H. Pitofsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786478651

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American Boarding School Fiction, 1928-1981 by Alexander H. Pitofsky Pdf

When boarding-school fiction became popular in the 19th century, it tended to be warm and nostalgic, filled with sporting events, practical jokes, and schemes to get even with campus bullies. All of that changed in the era discussed in this book. Holden Caulfield, the narrator of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, drops out of one prep school and is expelled from two others. The conflicts between students in John Knowles's Devon School novels become so heated that two young men die. And in the controversial novel Good Times/Bad Times, James Kirkwood portrays the headmaster of a private academy as closeted, deeply neurotic, and infatuated with an 18-year-old who has recently enrolled at his school. In spite of their unsettling images of anguish and cruelty, these and other American boarding-school novels have attracted large audiences and influenced countless school narratives in fiction, drama, television and film. Many books have been written about British school stories. This is the first study that explores the history of boarding-school fiction in the United States.

Author : Alexander H. Pitofsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666901948

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American Boarding School Fiction, 1981–2021 by Alexander H. Pitofsky Pdf

American Boarding School Fiction, 1981–2021: Inclusion and Scandal is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. Before the 1980s, writers of American boarding-school fiction tended to concentrate on mournful teenagers. When teachers, parents, and other adults appeared, they were usually placed far from the center of the action. The center was filled with white, male, Protestant students at boarding schools. In this book, Alexander H. Pitofsky discusses a new generation of writers—including Richard A. Hawley, Anita Shreve, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Tobias Wolff— that has transformed school fiction by highlighting issues relating to gender, race, scandal, sexuality, education, and social class in unprecedented ways. By turning their attention away from the bruised feelings of teenagers, Pitofsky argues, these authors have reinvented American boarding-school fiction, writing vividly about a host of subjects the genre overlooked in the past.

Author : David Aitchison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496837646

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The School Story by David Aitchison Pdf

The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Faiza Guène’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography for young readers, I Am Malala. He also responds to stories that take young people as their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire’s Push and films including Battle Royale and Cooties. Though ranging widely in their accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity (the extent to which students from diverse backgrounds have fair chances of receiving quality education) and empowerment (the extent to which diverse students are encouraged to gain strength, confidence, and selfhood as learners). Drawing particular attention to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience, this book considers what it means when learning and success are measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in the twenty-first century.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410392930

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A Study Guide for John Knowles's "Peace Breaks Out" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for John Knowles's "Peace Breaks Out", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Chris Heasley,Robert Palestini
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475861457

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Untangling Leadership by Chris Heasley,Robert Palestini Pdf

This book is a go-to guide for leaders in high education settings. Content includes organization structure, transformative leadership, effective communication, decision-making models, strategic planning, and leadership through change (just to name a few). If an administrator can master the knowledge and skills encompassed in this book, and do it with heart, they will be poised for leadership success. Chapter case studies provide adult leaders an opportunity to explore their new knowledge in real-life based scenarios with guided diagnostic questions for further contemplation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210122383

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth H. Oakes
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438108094

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American Writers by Elizabeth H. Oakes Pdf

"American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists

Author : Peter F. Lau
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059271083

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From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court by Peter F. Lau Pdf

Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy Series title: Constitutional Conflicts Ser.

Author : Alice Nash,Christoph Strobel
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064865234

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Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian Through Nineteenth-Century America by Alice Nash,Christoph Strobel Pdf

Discusses all aspects of daily life, including the day-to-day domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious habits of Native Americans from 1500 - 1900.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943255

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473374089

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The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Pdf

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Author : Barry T. Klein
Publisher : Nyack, N.Y. : Todd Publications
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028539455

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Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian by Barry T. Klein Pdf

Author : Nancy Woloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000048611459

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Women and The American Experience, A Concise History by Nancy Woloch Pdf

The 2d edition of this concise history has been revised to incorporate continuing research in the fast-growing field of Women’s History. Additions to the text include an exploration of women’s experiences and roles in various ethnic groups as well as three new sections: "The Trans-Mississippi West", "Migrants and Immigrants" and "Women and the Law". Woloch’s lucid, lively and thorough survey retains the same comprehensive style that has made it the best-selling narrative text in American Women’s History.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Editions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024907888

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Guide to Reprints by Anonim Pdf