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

• 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.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Universitet i litteraturen  (sao)

Satir  (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  (sao)

Etik i litteraturen  (sao)

Universities and colleges in literature.  (LCSH)

Communities in literature.  (LCSH)

Ethics in literature.  (LCSH)

College stories, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English fiction  -- History and criticism -- 20th century. (LCSH)

College stories, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction  -- History and criticism -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Satire, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Satire, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

American literature  (LCSH)

Universities and colleges in literature  (LCSH)

Ethics in literature  (LCSH)

Satire  (LCSH)

1900-talet  (barn)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

PR888.U5 W66 2001eb (LCC)

823.91409355 (DDC)