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Postwar academic fiction : satire, ethics, community
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- Creator
- Kenneth Womack
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002
- Physical Details
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- viii, 207 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780333918821, 0333918827
- OCLC
- ocm47973399
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-201) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.
- Satire, American -- History and criticism.
- Satire, English -- History and criticism.
- Universities and colleges in literature.
- Communities in literature.
- Ethics in literature.