
Überbürdung - Subversion - Ermächtigung
Die Schule und die literarische Moderne 1880-1918
Gwendolyn Whittaker(Author)
Brill Deutschland (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 2013
Book
Hardback
363 pages
978-3-8471-0095-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Around the year 1900, one can note a remarkable surge in literary texts dealing with the subject of school. So far, this boom has been perceived, but the body of texts has not been made accessible systematically from a perspective of discourse analysis and in a context of the history of knowledge. This study analyses, but also goes beyond canonical authors and texts in order to give a conception of the full scope of the genre and the reciprocal relationship that exists between the literary discourse on the subject of school and a whole range of other contemporary fields of knowledge. The process of transformation which the genre undergoes is portrayed with regard to three such interrelationships in particular: the role of 'Uberbürdung' - the contemporary discussion of the supposedly excessive physical and intellectual demands on pupils; forms of artistic subversion of the institutions' requirements and forms of parody of the still fledgling genre tradition; and finally, scenarios showing a transformation of pedagogical objectives into political ones. In consequence, the school emerges as a mirroring image - as an institution that helps the era of modernity to understand and come to terms with itself.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2012
Universität Konstanz
Language
German
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Publishing group
V&R unipress
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 Abbildungen
mit 2 Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 16.3 cm
Thickness: 3 cm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8471-0095-9 (9783847100959)
DOI
10.14220/9783847100959
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Überbürdung - Subversion - Ermächtigung
Die Schule und die literarische Moderne 1880-1918
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Persons
Author
Dr. Gwendolyn Whittaker studierte Germanistik und Anglistik in Konstanz und Glasgow. Sie schloss ihr Studium mit dem Ersten Staatsexamen ab und wurde 2012 an der Universität Konstanz promoviert.
Series Editor
Dr. Hermann Korte ist Professor am Fachbereich Sprach-, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften der Universität Siegen.
Dr. Ingo Stöckmann ist Professor am Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.