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Shifting Focus - Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education (Paperback)
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Shifting Focus - Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education (Paperback)
Series: Educational Philosophy and Theory
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There is a long history of interest in 'strangers' and
'strangeness' in the West. Literature lends itself particularly
well to an exploration of the strange in its richly varied forms,
having often contained portraits of outsiders. These portraits
depict people who are strange in their unusual appearance or
demeanour, their out-of-the-ordinary actions or attitudes, their
defiance of convention, their marginalisation from society, or
their resistance to dominant structures and practices, as well as
those who come from strange worlds. Each contribution in this
collection focuses on a novel, story or play. The essays engage
works by Shelley, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Dostoevsky, Conrad,
Grazia Deledda, Kafka, Beckett, and Camus, all of whom have much to
offer the central theme of 'strangers and strangeness'. This book
demonstrates that there is considerable value in encountering,
experiencing and reflecting upon that which is strange. Education
is, amongst other things, a process of learning to see the world
otherwise, and literature has the capacity to promote this form of
human development. This book allows readers to re-experience the
ordinary, and to learn that what at first seems strange is rather
closer to us than we had previously imagined. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy
& Theory.
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