Literature, Pedagogy, and Curriculum in Secondary Education

Explores the importance of literature not as a spiritual or utilitarian discipline alone, but rather as a useful spiritual discipline
Seeks to examine the uncertain future of the general education status of literary studies by learning from its past

Accelerates progress in debate over the value of literary study by explaining and evaluating arguments from Western educators

Autorentext
M. Martin Guiney is Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Kenyon College, USA. He has published on literary pedagogy in France and the United States, as well as on twentieth-century literature and film.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Chapter 1. Aristocrats or Anarchists: Who Has Power over Lite.- Chapter 2. The Baccalauréat Exam and the French Canonical Literary Exercise.- Chapter 3. Inventing and Defending the General Education of Literature.- Chapter 4. Literature in French Schools after 1968.- Chapter 5. How (Not) to Teach: Parroting vs Proximity in Cinematic Representations of Literary Pedagogy.- Chapter 6. Harnessing the Neoliberal Beast.