Petry Anouk
In this dissertation, I argue that an analogy can be drawn between the
relationship of the teacher to his students and the author to his readers.
Authority lies at the heart of both teaching and writing. I outline the parallels
between teachers and authors at the hand of two concrete examples in
literature; Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip.
First, I compare the teacher characters in these novels to explore their different
teaching...