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Author:

Womack, Kenneth.

Title:

Postwar academic fiction : satire, ethics, community / Kenneth Womack.

Publisher:

Palgrave,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

viii, 207 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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.
Community in literature.
Ethics in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-201) and index.

Contents:

Conclusion: Ethical criticism and the academic novel beyond the culture wars 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:

9780333918821
0333918827

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47973399
(OCoLC)48932826

LCCN:

2001053262

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)