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By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Andrew Motion, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and Paul Theroux are among the twenty contributors of original essays to this landmark volume celebrating masters of the teaching profession. What makes a good teacher? What lights the writer's creative fire? How can the teacher shape the writer? This book answers these questions and more,…mehr
By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Andrew Motion, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and Paul Theroux are among the twenty contributors of original essays to this landmark volume celebrating masters of the teaching profession.
What makes a good teacher? What lights the writer's creative fire? How can the teacher shape the writer? This book answers these questions and more, describing the powerful influence of mentors at an impressionable time of life, portraying the heart-warming transition from pupil to friend, and exploring the lasting impact that truly great teachers can have on their students.
To have teachers who care, and to have such notable writers capture their spirit, is ample reason to read Dale Salwak's elegant celebration of the 'noble profession' and the world-renowned writers that it helped to hone.
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Autorenporträt
Dale Salwak is Professor of English Literature at Southern California's Citrus College, USA. His 28 books include Living with a Writer (2004), Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature (2008), Writers and Their Mothers (2018), and studies of Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A. J. Cronin, Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, Carl Sandburg, Anne Tyler, and John Wain. He is a recipient of Purdue University's Distinguished Alumni Award as well as a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a frequent contributor to the (London) Times Higher Education magazine and the Times Educational Supplement.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Notes on Contributors Part I School 1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws J. M. Coetzee 2 Mabel Morrill Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 3 Learning Curve Catherine Aird 4 A Way with Words Michael Scammell 5 Peter Way Andrew Motion 6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers Ngugi wa Thiong'o 7 Il Miglior Fabbro George Howe Colt Part II College 8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg Jeffrey Meyers 9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring Jay Parini 10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction William Logan Part III Graduate School and After 11 My Doktorvater Stephen Greenblatt 12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge Margaret Drabble 13 The Right Words Carl Rollyson 14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum Paul Mariani 15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt Michael J. Aminoff 16 How Lucky I Was . . . Ann Thwaite 17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague Daniel Johnson 18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent Robert Boyers 19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford Dana Gioia 20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant Paul Theroux
Preface Notes on Contributors Part I School 1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws J. M. Coetzee 2 Mabel Morrill Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 3 Learning Curve Catherine Aird 4 A Way with Words Michael Scammell 5 Peter Way Andrew Motion 6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers Ngugi wa Thiong'o 7 Il Miglior Fabbro George Howe Colt Part II College 8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg Jeffrey Meyers 9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring Jay Parini 10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction William Logan Part III Graduate School and After 11 My Doktorvater Stephen Greenblatt 12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge Margaret Drabble 13 The Right Words Carl Rollyson 14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum Paul Mariani 15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt Michael J. Aminoff 16 How Lucky I Was . . . Ann Thwaite 17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague Daniel Johnson 18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent Robert Boyers 19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford Dana Gioia 20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant Paul Theroux
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