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Home / Publications / Books / Scotnotes Study Guides / Scotnote 7

Scotnote 7

Muriel Spark’s
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

David S. Robb

Published in: Paperback.
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1992
Price: £5.95
ISBN 978-0-948877-14-8

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Click here to watch Andrew Young’s talk on Teaching Muriel Spark plus other videos from the 2018 ASLS Schools Conference.


Muriel Spark’s arch, subversive novel entertains us with its amusing, nostalgic evocation of the 1930s schooldays of a group of middle-class Edinburgh girls – then forces us to face up to the easy surface charms, and darker undercurrents, of Miss Jean Brodie’s perfect self-assurance.

David Robb’s Scotnote untangles the many aspects of this novel – historical, political, psychological and religious – and is an ideal guide for senior school pupils and students at all levels.

CONTENTS

  • Muriel Spark and her novels
  • The events in the novel
  • The novel and the period in which it is set
  • Religion in the novel
  • Assessing Jean Brodie
  • Sandy Stranger and the Brodie Set
  • Daydreams, stories and truth
  • Select bibliography

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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