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Teaching Literature at a<br />
Business School<br />
Why bother and take the efforts to teach literature<br />
in a business school while knowing students’ reading<br />
lists are eventually not essential in their final<br />
exams?<br />
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said<br />
Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ―<br />
George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons.<br />
I decided to give class IIb this treat and challenged<br />
them with the Costa Book of the Year 2015,<br />
The Lie Tree by British author Frances Hardinge.<br />
It’s a dark and powerful novel that deals with the<br />
theme of women’s place in society.<br />
“There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed<br />
to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble<br />
sparingly when at the table, and their minds were<br />
supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too. A few<br />
stale lessons from tired governesses, dull walks,<br />
unthinking pastimes. But it was not enough. All<br />
knowledge – any knowledge – called to Faith, and<br />
there was a delicious, poisonous pleasure in stealing<br />
it unseen.”<br />
Reading the novel opened the door to life in Victorian<br />
England with lots of historical details: ratting,<br />
craniometry, treatment of women and children,<br />
after-death photography, etc.<br />
In the end, the students picked out one ludicrous<br />
detail from the novel and put it into practice: They<br />
choreographed headless pictures and enjoyed them<br />
just as much as the English did 150 years ago!<br />
Helene Stöckeler
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