Open Secrets Literature, Education, and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee

Name: Open Secrets Literature, Education, and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee
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ISBN: 9780199208098

ISBN-10: 0199208093

ISBN-13: 9780199208098

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael Bell

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Open Secrets reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret refers not to a revealed mystery but to an utterance that is not understood, the likely fate of any instruction based purely on authority. Revisiting the European Bildungsroman, it studies the pedagogical relationship from the point of view of the tutor or mentor figure rather than with the usual focus on the young hero. The argument is not confined to works of fiction, however, but examines texts in which the category of fiction has a crucial and constitutive function, for a growing awareness of limited authority on the part of the mentor…

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List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.45" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Michael Bell is Professor Emeritus in English and Comparative Literary Studies. He has written several books including Primitivism, D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being, Literature, Modernism and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century, and Open Secrets: Literature, Education and Authority from J-J Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee,



Introduction: the 'Open Secret' and the Pedagogical Circle






Imaginary Authority in Rousseau's iEmile/i



The Comedy of Educational Errors: (A) Sterne's iTristram Shandy/i



and (B) C. M. Wieland's iHistory of Agathon/i



Goethe's 'Open Secrets:' iWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship/i



Pedagogy, Fiction and the Art of Renunciation: iWilhelm Meister'sJourneymanship, or the Renunciants/i



Nietzsche as Educator and the Implosion of iBildung/i






'The passion of instruction:' D. H. Lawrence and 'Wholeness' versusiBildung/i



The Importance of being Frank: Criticism, Collaboration and Pedagogy in F.R. Leavis



The Lecturer, the Novelist, and the Limits of Persuasion: Elizabeth Costelloand J. M. Coetzee on The Lives of Animals and Men


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