Roderick Mcgillis

Broschiertes Buch

Lost Innocence

The Growth of an Academic's Mind

Beschreibung

In Lost Innocence: The Growth of an Academic's Mind, Roderick McGillis looks back on his many decades as student and teacher to consider the evolution of the modern university as well as his own work as a professor of English literature and specialist in children's literature. While regretting higher education's ever-increasing corporatization and unrelenting focus on making graduates "job ready," he also finds "little that can equal a liberal education in preparing a person for the slings and arrows that one must dodge getting through this earthly life.... Light shines from the Ivory Tower, a light that just might reach the world beyond in salutary and bracing ways-if we keep striving, striving, striving." McGillis writes evocatively of his childhood in eastern Ontario, his years as a student both in Canada and the UK, and his long career at the University of Calgary. His work afforded opportunities for travel to locales as varied as Scandinavia and the southern United States; those journeys are recounted in amusing and insightful detail, as are McGillis's encounters with the many idiosyncratic personalities found within academe's ivy-covered walls. The result is not only a good read but a stimulating reflection on the meaning of post-secondary education in the twenty-first century.

Autor

Roderick McGillis grew up in a small town in the Ottawa Valley. He is now a retired Professor of English, having taught at the University of Calgary for thirty-eight years. He is the author of five books: the novel, Les Pieds Devant (2007), the award winning The Nimble Reader: Literary Theory and Children's Literature (1996), A Little Princess: Gender and Empire (1996), He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western (2009), and Around the Block; or the Tricks of Memory (2021). He has edited or co-edited another ten books. In 1997, he received the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award for distinguished service to Children's Literature, and in 2002 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. That same year, 2002, he received President's Circle Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity, the University of Calgary. He has been President of the Children's Literature Association, and he served as editor of that Association's journal (ChLA Quarterly) for four years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rock's Mills Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781772443684
• ISBN-10: 1772443689
• Artikelnr.: 74980775