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Education and the Boarding School Novel

The Work of José Régio

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  1. Filipe Delfim Santos
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  • Although the boarding school system was meant to produce gentlemen and not novels, this form of education has left a remarkable imprint in literature
  • The boarding school is a literary myth and also a sociological one: a complex combination of narratives encompassing themes of utopian vision, social engineering, power relations, burgeoning sexuality, and individual boldness
  • The focus of this study is on Leidensgeschichte, a concept that embraces all literature about suffering

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  3. Genre in Narratives about Growing Up

    • Filipe Delfim Santos
    Pages 17-30

  5. Gender Wars—On Schools in Literature

    • Filipe Delfim Santos
    Pages 55-69

  7. Fathers, Mentors, and Companions

    • Filipe Delfim Santos
    Pages 93-108

  8. An Educational Analysis of A Drop of Blood

    • Filipe Delfim Santos
    Pages 109-124

  9. Conclusions

    • Filipe Delfim Santos
    Pages 125-135

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 137-157
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"In this book, the author contributes to genre theory, space theory (suggesting allotopia for heterotopia, or describing hypertopia versus hypotopia), the study of authorship, the formation and education novels, and develops such concepts as Leidensgeschichte or the Telemachus complex. Based on Portuguese writer José Régio’s novel A Drop of Blood (1945), he studies the cultural meaning of the immersion paradigm in education and some historical and anthropological features of boarding schools and other institutions of confinement. This book is of interest to those studying the philosophy of education, masculinist nineteenth-century educational theories—in particular about masculine friendships—the place of the Bildungsroman in genre theory, Foucault’s ideas on ‘other spaces’, and the implications of narcissism, melancholia, and nostalgia for the trauma narrative."


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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Education and the Boarding School Novel

  • Book Subtitle: The Work of José Régio

  • Authors: Filipe Delfim Santos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-741-2

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-741-2Published: 28 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 158

  • Topics: Education, general

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