Postwar academic fiction [electronic resource] : satire, ethics, community / Kenneth Womack
- Author
- Womack, Kenneth
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
- Physical Description
- viii, 208 pages
- Additional Creators
- NetLibrary, Inc
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- 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.
- Subject(s)
- 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
- ISBN
- 1403919305 (electronic bk.)
- Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-201) and index.
- Reproduction Note
- Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2003. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
- Funding Information
- This netLibrary electronic book is provided through the Access Pennsylvania Database project, a statewide library union catalog funded by the Pennsylvania Legislature and administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Bureau of Library Development.
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