Before Tom Brown

Before Tom Brown

The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre''s continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children''s literature, almost all of them take as their sta......
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The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre''s continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children''s literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown''s Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he
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The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre''s continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children''s literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown''s Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role of the school story in the broader development of the novel as the genre became established through the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded with a whole new perspective on the history of children''s literature.

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Oppdag historien i 'Before Tom Brown'

'Before Tom Brown' er en fascinerende studie av skolehistorier som tar leseren med på en reise fra gamle sumeriske tekster til moderne litteratur. Robert Kirkpatrick graver dypt i røttene til skolefortellinger og avdekker deres betydning i litteraturhistorien.

En grundig analyse av skolesjangerens utvikling

  • Innhold: Kirkpatrick undersøker tidlige skolelivsskildringer i Sumer, Egypt og Graeco-Roman, og viser hvordan disse tekstene tjente som pedagogiske verktøy.
  • Tidslinje: Boken sporer utviklingen av skolefortellinger fra 2500 f.Kr. til den første skoleromanen i 1607.
  • Kulturelle referanser: Fra Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales til komediene til Shakespeare, avdekker boken hvordan skoleliv har blitt fremstilt i litteraturen.

Betydningen av 'Before Tom Brown' for moderne lesere

For fans av sjangeren, gir 'Before Tom Brown' en ny og unik forståelse av hvordan skolehistorier har påvirket og formet barne- og ungdomslitteratur. Boken viser hvordan fortellinger om skoleliv fortsatt fenger unge lesere, med moderne eksempler som 'Harry Potter' og 'Malory Towers'.

Hvem bør lese 'Before Tom Brown'?

Alle med interesse for litteraturhistorie, pedagogikk eller bare en forkjærlighet for skolefortellinger vil finne denne boken uvurderlig. Den appellerer til både akademikere og vanlige lesere som ønsker å dykke dypere inn i sjangeren.

Investér i litteraturhistorien!

Med sin grundige forskning og lett tilgjengelige skrivestil, er 'Before Tom Brown' et must-have for enhver bokhylle. Ta steget inn i en verden av skoleliv og oppdag hvordan disse fortellingene har utviklet seg over tid.

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