Schoolhouse Gothic: Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1847189938 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Schoolhouse Gothic makes us look at education and American literature with new eyes. This is an important book, and it will be widely read and admired." - Charles Crow, Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University Editor of American Gothic: An Anthology and A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America . "Professor Truffin's elegant study defines a literature about school days. Since the Gothic always reveals an alternative history, the hidden underside of experience, these are not the bright happy times of school anthems and graduation speeches, but a history of power abused and trust betrayed
In Schoolhouse Gothic literature, schools turn students into psychopaths and machines. In this discourse, curses take the form of persistent power inequities (of race, gender, class, and age) andârather ironicallyâthe Enlightenment itself. In contrast, Schoolhouse Gothic scholarship offers a metaphorical trap: academic objectivity, viewed as an institutional ideology of concealment that blinds the scholar to his or her own prejudices, rendering even the most well-meaning complicit with inequitable power structures. In the scholarship, the product is discourse, seen as âepistemic violenceâ reified. The combination of curse and trap produces paranoia, violence, and monstrosity. Undertaken by insiders and outsiders to the academy alike and embodied bot
Truffin is an Associate Professor of English at Tiffin University in northwest Ohio, where she teaches courses in Womenâs Literature, Modern and Postmodern Fiction, the History of the English Language, and English Grammar and Composition. . She has published essays on works by James Baldwin, Stephen King, and Chuck Palahniuk, as well as on the
"Practical Gothic" according to A Reader. Schoolhouse Gothic: Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship is an excellent example of how to approach literary criticism. The author makes her case in the first chapter by carefully explaining her methodology and clearly defining the term "schoolhouse gothic." Because of this careful and extremely clear introduction, the reader is able to follow her analysis of various works with ease and deeper understanding than many books of literary criticism allow. Although of c. Fascinating analysis comparing the nature of an unhappy school experience Lia Keyes Fascinating analysis comparing the nature of an unhappy school experience to Gothic 19th century literature's common themes of entrapment, enslavement, and the dark power of malevolent buildings. Delicious, thought-provoking reading. I found myself underlining so much of the book it's ridiculous.