Shifting Focus - Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Educational Philosophy and Theory
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Peter Roberts
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	122
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-85282-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-138-85282-1
Barcode:	9781138852822

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