Representations of Education in Literature

Download or read book Representations of Education in Literature written by Paul G. Nixon and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen academics, mostly American, from English and political science departments, address such topics as merit and intelligence in the works of Charlotte Bronte, the transformation of English studies through Joyce's Ulysses, the adult learner in Educating Rita, literacy in 19th-century America, education and decolonization in John Saunana's Melanesian novel, The Alternative, the ambiguity of education in Anglophone Caribbean fiction, and the bildungsroman in African postcolonial fiction. One argument for considering representations of education in fiction, asserts Nixon, is that education reflects and enforces the values of the dominant culture, is employed as a tool of assimilation or colonization that most often employs technology to make socialization irresistible. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR