Contents

  1. Introduction: “Follow thy Bruce”
  2. Part I. Bruce Gardiner en acte
  3. 1 The Antimanager
  4. 2 Revolutionary Tradition
  5. 3 They Danced by the Light of the Moon: Edward Lear, Bruce Gardiner and Learning Ways to Mean
  6. 4 Navigating, Networking, Nurturing: The Research, Teaching and Leadership of Bruce Gardiner
  7. 5 Human Voices, and a Bruce Gardiner Lecture
  8. 6 “My Wretched Dragon Is Perplexed”: Scenes of Submission and Response
  9. 7 Marks in the Margin: Reading Benjamin Reading Baudelaire
  10. 8 The Windhover in Him
  11. Part II. Imagined Pedagogies:
    Poetry and Play
  12. 9 Triptych
  13. 10 Street Library (A–Z)
  14. 11 Bruce Gardiner’s Emily Dickinson
  15. 12 Play as Structure
  16. Part III. Bruce Gardiner, Original Teachings
  17. 13 “To entertain this Starry Stranger”: Jane Taylor, William Blake, Edward Lear and Mem Fox in Martha Nussbaum’s Classroom
  18. 14 Lectures on Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray
  19. 15 Luce Irigaray’s The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger
  20. Part IV. The Poetics of Pedagogy
  21. 16 Lyrebirds
  22. 17 The Queer Optimism of Ginsberg’s “Kaddish” (for Bruce Gardiner)
  23. 18 Teaching Interpretation: The “Genuine Sense” in Bruce Gardiner’s Lectures
  24. 19 The Nonsense of Knowledge: A Reading of George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind
  25. 20 Virtue or Villainy? Mrs. Grose in “The Turn of the Screw” and The Haunting of Bly Manor
  26. 21 Djuna Barnes’ Modernity: Addition, Subtraction, Failure, Fantasy
  27. 22 The Last Man: Literature and Survival
  28. Contributors
  29. Appendix 1. Bruce Gardiner: Educational and Academic History
  30. Appendix 2. Bruce Gardiner: Record of Teaching and Supervision, 1981–2021
  31. Index
  32. Copyright information

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