Leon Sachs

The Pedagogical Imagination

The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. This book shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of interpretation.

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Leon Sachs is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Kentucky.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780803245051
• ISBN-10: 080324505X
• Artikelnr.: 40139730

Autorenporträt

Leon Sachs is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations                                      
Acknowledgments                                     
Introduction: Reading the Republican Legacy          
1. A New Language of Learning: Object Lesson Pedagogy  and the Modern
Reader       
2. Visualizing Literacy: From Pierre Larousse to Agnès Varda’s Les glaneurs
et la glaneuse          
3. Teaching Suspicion: Erik Orsenna’s La grammaire est une chanson douceas
a Modern Tour de la France par deux enfants                               
                  
4. A Classic Dodge: Republican Conflict and Islamic Solutions in Abdellatif
Kechiche’s L’esquive           
5. Writing on Walls: Laïcité and Literary Form in François Bégaudeau’s
Entre les murs      
Conclusion: The Strangeness of Republican Culture  
Notes                                                              
Bibliography                                                  
Index