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Book SynopsisOld Schools marks out a modernist countertradition: a series of engagements with classical education after the rise of progressive pedagogical theories. The book shows how figures in various cultural vanguards, from Victorian Britain to 1970s Brazil, reimagined the old school to make it facilitate the change it seemed to impede.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: On Counter- Progressive Pedagogy | 1
1. Surviving Marius: Pater’s Mechanical Exercise | 25
2. Among Fanciulli: Poetry, Pedantry, and Pascoli’s Paedagogium | 59
3. “Copied Out Big”: Instruction in Joyce’s Ulysses | 89
4. Salò and the School of Abuse | 114
5. Schooling in Ruins: Glauber Rocha’s Rome | 137
Acknowledgments | 161
Notes | 165
Index | 219
