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Postwar academic fiction : satire, ethics, community
- Title
- Postwar academic fiction : satire, ethics, community / Kenneth Womack.
- Author
- Womack, Kenneth
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR888.U5 W66 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 207 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- College stories, English > History and criticism
- College stories, American > History and criticism
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Literature and society > English-speaking countries
- Satire, American > History and criticism
- Satire, English > History and criticism
- Universities and colleges in literature
- Communities in literature
- Ethics in literature
- College stories, English > 20th century > History and criticism
- College stories, American > 20th century > History and criticism
- American fiction
- College stories, American
- College stories, English
- English fiction
- Literature and society
- Satire, American
- Satire, English
- English-speaking countries
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-201) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Ethical criticism and postwar literary theory -- Reading the "Heavy industry of the mind" : ethical criticism and the Anglo-American academic novel -- Negotiating the university community : Lucky Jim and the politics of academe -- Scholar adventurers in exile : Nabokov's Dr. Kinbote and Professor Pnin -- Searching for goodness and the ethical self : Joyce Carol Oates's The hungry ghosts -- Professoriate in love : David Lodge's academic trilogy and the ethics of romance -- Performing the academy : alterity and David Mamet's Oleanna -- Campus xenophobia and the multicultural project: Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring -- Academic nonfiction and the culture warriors : "teaching the conflicts" in Gilbert and Gubar's Masterpiece Theatre -- Jane Smiley's academic carnival : rooting for ethics at Moo U. -- Conclusion: Ethical criticism and the academic novel beyond the culture wars.
- ISBN
- 0333918827
- 9780333918821
- LCCN
- 2001053262
- OCLC
- ocm47973399
- 47973399
- SCSB-1238991
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library