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Sweet days of discipline
\"A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: \"At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.\" But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Frâederique, the apparently perfect new girl.\"--Amazon.com.
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Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban de J. K. Rowling (Analyse de l'oeuvre)
Décryptez Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban de J.K. Rowling avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr! Que faut-il retenir d' Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban, le troisième tome de la saga littéraire au succès planétaire? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche: • Un résumé complet • Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley et Sirius Black • Une analyse des spécificités de l'œuvre: le schéma actantiel, le schéma narratif et le genre du fantasyUne analyse de référence pour comprendre rapidement le sens de l'œuvre.LE MOT DE L'ÉDITEUR: «Dans cette nouvelle édition de notre analyse d' Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban (2014), avec Youri Panneel, nous fournissons des pistes pour décoder cette série littéraire emblématique du fantasy. Notre analyse permet de faire rapidement le tour de l'œuvre et d'aller au-delà des clichés.» Stéphanie FELTEN À propos de la collection LePetitLitteraire.fr: Plébiscité tant par les passionnés de littérature que par les lycéens, LePetitLittéraire.fr est considéré comme une référence en matière d'analyse d'œuvres classiques et contemporaines. Nos analyses, disponibles au format papier et numérique, ont été conçues pour guider les lecteurs à travers la littérature. Nos auteurs combinent théories, citations, anecdotes et commentaires pour vous faire découvrir et redécouvrir les plus grandes œuvres littéraires.LePetitLittéraire.fr est reconnu d'intérêt pédagogique par le ministère de l'Éducation. Plus d'informations sur http://www.lepetitlitteraire.fr
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A troublesome boy
Teddy can't believe how fast his life has changed in just two years. When he was twelve, his father took off, and then his mother married Henry, a man Teddy despises. But Teddy has no control over his life, and adults make all the decisions, especially in 1959. Henry decides that Teddy should be sent to St. Ignatius Academy for Boys, an isolated boarding school run by the Catholic church. St. Iggy's, Teddy learns, is a cold, unforgiving place -- something between a juvenile detention center and reform school. The other boys are mostly a cast of misfits and eccentrics, but Teddy quickly becomes best friends with Cooper, a wise-cracking, Wordsworth-loving kid with a history of neglect. Despite the priests' ruthless efforts to crack down on the slightest hint of defiance or attitude, the boys get by for a while on their wits, humor and dreams of escape. But the beatings, humiliation and hours spent in the school's infamous \"time-out\" rooms, and the institutionalized system of power and abuse that protects the priests' authority, eventually take their toll, especially on the increasingly fragile Cooper. Then one of the new priests, Father Prince, starts to summon Cooper to his room at night, and Teddy watches helplessly as his friend withdraws into his own private nightmare, even as Prince targets Teddy himself as his next victim. Teddy and Cooper's only reprieve comes on Saturdays, when the school janitor, Rozey, takes the boys to his run-down farmhouse outside of town, the only place where the boys can feel normal -- fishing, playing cribbage, watching the bears at the local dump. But even this can't stop Cooper's downward spiral and eventual suicide. And just when Teddy thinks something good might come out of his friend's tragedy, he finds himself dealing with the ultimate betrayal.
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Tom Brown's school days
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Thomas Hughes' novel about the mischievous but kind-hearted schoolboy Tom Brown inspired other school novels, including Frank Richards' Billy Bunter stories and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The novel begins at Tom's childhood home in the Vale of the White Horse, where he spends his days out in the fields with his pony. This early idyllic setting it set up as a contrast to the stresses that Tom undergoes later at Rugby boarding school when he encounters the bully Flashman. Tom is helped through his struggles by his friends Harry 'Scud' East and the frail but brilliant George Arthur, whom Tom protects, and who ultimately helps Tom develop into a young gentleman ready for Oxford university.
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The school for cats
Captain Tinker sends Jenny Linsky off to boarding school for the summer, but when another student frightens her, she tries to run away.
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The Heinie Prize
When fourth-grader Bernie schemes to have his servile friend Belzer win the Most Outstanding Student award, his success yields unexpected consequences.
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The boarding school testimony of Charlotte Brontë
PurposeCharlotte Brontë integrated her own and her sisters' traumatic boarding school experiences into her novel, Jane Eyre (1847) as a way of expressing her anger through autobiographical fiction. The aim is to link contemporary research into boarding school trauma to the relevant events, thereby identifying what she wrote as a testimony contributing to the long history of the problematic nature of boarding schools.Design/methodology/approachAutobiographical fiction is discussed as a form of testimony, placing Jane Eyre in that category. Recent research into the traumatic experiences of those whose parents chose to send them to boarding school is presented, leading to an argument that educational historians need to analyse experience rather than limiting their work to structure and planning. The traumatic events the Brontë sisters experienced at the Clergy Daughters' School are outlined as the basis for what is included in Jane Eyre at the fictional Lowood School. Specific traumatic events in the novel are then identified and contemporary research into boarding school trauma applied.FindingsThe findings reveal Charlotte's remarkable insight into the psychological impact on children being sent away to board at a time when understandings about trauma and boarding school trauma did not exist. An outcome of the analysis is that it places the novel within the field of the history of education as a testimony of boarding school life.Originality/valueThis is the first application of boarding school trauma research to the novel.
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Shake, rattle, & hurl!
Rotten School schemer Bernie Bridges is determined that Rotten House will beat Nyce House in the annual talent contest.
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APPETITE FOR LITERATURE OR A TRIBUTE TO PLEASURE
The article analyses the culinary journey that John Lancaster presents in his 1996 novel The Debt to Pleasure. John Lanchester is a wellknown book reviewer and food critic from Great Britain, who surprised the literary world with his 1996 novel disguised as an essay that, in turn, parodies a cookbook, combining the characteristics of the three forms of writing mentioned above.
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