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" Postwar Academic Fiction. "
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BL
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736333
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b556197
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Postwar Academic Fiction.\ Womack.
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
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1280250348
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: 1349423769
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: 9781280250347
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: 9781349423767
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Cover --;Postwar Academic Fiction --;Contents --;Acknowledgments --;1 Introduction: Ethical Criticism and Postwar Literary Theory --;2 Reading the "Heavy Industry of the Mind": Ethical Criticism and the Anglo-American Academic Novel --;3 Negotiating the University Community: Lucky Jim and the Politics of Academe --;4 Scholar Adventurers in Exile: Nabokov's Dr. Kinbote and Professor Pnin --;5 Searching for Goodness and the Ethical Self: Joyce Carol Oates's The Hungry Ghosts --;6 The Professoriate in Love: David Lodge's Academic Trilogy and the Ethics of Romance --;7 Performing the Academy: Alterity and David Mamet's Oleanna --;8 Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project: Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring --;9 Academic Nonfiction and the Culture Warriors: "Teaching the Conflicts" in Gilbert and Gubar's Masterpiece Theatre --;10 Jane Smiley's Academic Carnival: Rooting for Ethics at Moo U. --;11 Conclusion: Ethical Criticism and the Academic Novel beyond the Culture Wars --;Notes --;Chapter 1: Introduction --;Chapter 2: Reading the "Heavy Industry of the Mind" --;Chapter 3: Negotiating the University Community --;Chapter 4: Scholar Adventurers in Exile --;Chapter 5: Searching for Goodness and the Ethical Self --;Chapter 6: The Professoriate in Love --;Chapter 7: Performing the Academy --;Chapter 8: Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project --;Chapter 9: Academic Nonfiction and the Culture Warriors --;Chapter 10: Jane Smiley's Academic Carnival --;Chapter 11: Conclusion --;Bibliography --;Index.
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As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular modes for satirizing the cultural conflicts and sociological nuances inherent in campus life. Drawing upon recent insights in ethical criticism and moral philosophy, "Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community" offers new readings of fictional and nonfictional works by such figures as Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, David Lodge, David Mamet, Ishmael Reed, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar and Jane Smiley.
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PR888.W663 2001
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