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Informationen zum Autor Ramsey McGlazer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory, the Department of Italian Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (2020), published by Fordham University Press in the Lit Z Series. Klappentext Old Schools marks out a modernist countertradition: a series of engagements with classical education after the rise of progressive pedagogical theories. The book shows how figures in various cultural vanguards, from Victorian Britain to 1970s Brazil, reimagined the old school to make it facilitate the change it seemed to impede. Zusammenfassung Old Schools marks out a modernist countertradition: a series of engagements with classical education after the rise of progressive pedagogical theories. The book shows how figures in various cultural vanguards, from Victorian Britain to 1970s Brazil, reimagined the old school to make it facilitate the change it seemed to impede. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction : On Counter- Progressive Pedagogy | 1 1. Surviving Marius : Pater's Mechanical Exercise | 25 2. Among Fanciulli : Poetry, Pedantry, and Pascoli's Paedagogium | 59 3. "Copied Out Big": Instruction in Joyce's Ulysses | 89 4. Salò and the School of Abuse | 114 5. Schooling in Ruins: Glauber Rocha's Rome | 137 Acknowledgments | 161 Notes | 165 Index | 219
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Ramsey McGlazer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory, the Department of Italian Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies. He is the author of
Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (2020), published by Fordham University Press in the Lit Z Series.
