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Shifting Focus: Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education book cover

1st Edition

Shifting Focus Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education

Edited By Peter Roberts Copyright 2015
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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There is a long history of interest in ‘strangers’ and ‘strangeness’ in the West. Literature lends itself particularly well to an exploration of the strange in its richly varied forms, having often contained portraits of outsiders. These portraits depict people who are strange in their unusual appearance or demeanour, their out-of-the-ordinary actions or attitudes, their defiance of convention,... Read more

1. Introduction: Educative strangeness

Peter Roberts

2. Strangers and Orphans: Knowledge and mutuality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Claudia Rozas Gómez

3. A Strange Condition of Things: Alterity and knowingness in Dickens’ David

Copperfield

Richard Smith

4. Spectral Strangers: Charlotte Brontë’s teachers

Nesta Devine

5. The Stranger Within: Dostoevsky’s underground

Peter Roberts

6. Being a Stranger and the Strangeness of Being: Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer

as an allegory of being in education

Elias Schwieler

7. The Servant: Class estrangement as experience in Grazia Deledda’s Canne al vento

John Freeman-Moir

8. Caring About Strangers: A Lingisian reading of Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Ruyu Hung

9. A Desperate Comedy: Hope and alienation in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Alan Scott

10. Confronting the Absurd: An educational reading of Camus’ The Stranger

Aidan Curzon-Hobson

Biography

Peter Roberts is Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His primary areas of scholarship are philosophy of education and educational policy studies. His most recent books include Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia (2013) and From West to East and Back Again: An Educational Reading of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work (2012). He is also President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.

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