Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Postwar Academic Fiction : Satire, Ethics, Community.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781403919304
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.9109355
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Jm 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 Nonfction and the Culture Warriors: "Teaching the Conficts" 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
No physical items for this record

Intro -- 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 Jm 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 Nonfction and the Culture Warriors: "Teaching the Conficts" 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Licensed e-book