Postwar academic fiction
Subtitle: satire, ethics, community
By: Kenneth Womack.
Publisher: Palgrave; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
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.; Literature and society -- English-speaking countries.; 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.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Ethical Criticism and Postwar literary; title: Theory; title: 2 Reading the "Heavy Industry of the Mind": Ethical; title: Criticism and the Anglo-American Academic Novel; title: 3 Negotiating the University Community: Lucky Jim; title: and the Politics of Academe; title: 4 Scholar Adventurers in Exile: Nabokov's Dr. Kinbote; title: and Professor Pnin; title: 5 Searching for Goodness and the Ethical Self: Joyce; title: Carol Oates's The Hungry Ghosts; title: 6 The Professoriate in Love: David Lodge's Academic; title: Trilogy and the Ethics of Romance; title: 7 Performing the Academy: Alterity and David Mamet's; title: Oleanna; title: 8 Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project:; title: Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring; title: 9 Academic Nonfiction and the Culture Warriors:; title: "Teaching the Conflicts" in Gilbert and Gubar's; title: Masterpiece Theatre; title: 10 Jane Smiley's Academic Carnival: Rooting for Ethics; title: at Moo U.; title: 11 Conclusion: Ethical Criticism and the Academic; title: Novel beyond the Culture Wars; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.