Abstract

Introduction: the 'Open Secret' and the Pedagogical Circle PART I 1. Imaginary Authority in Rousseau's Emile 2. The Comedy of Educational Errors: (A) Sterne's Tristram Shandy 3. and (B) C. M. Wieland's History of Agathon 4. Goethe's 'Open Secrets:' Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 5. Pedagogy, Fiction and the Art of Renunciation: Wilhelm Meister's Journeymanship, or the Renunciants 6. Nietzsche as Educator and the Implosion of Bildung PART II 7. 'The passion of instruction:' D. H. Lawrence and 'Wholeness' versus Bildung 8. The Importance of being Frank: Criticism, Collaboration and Pedagogy in F. R. Leavis 9. The Lecturer, the Novelist, and the Limits of Persuasion: Elizabeth Costello and J. M. Coetzee on The Lives of Animals and Men Conclusion

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