| Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Womack, K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333918827 ISBN-13: 9780333918821 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 823.910 |
| LCCN: 2001053262 |
| Lexile Measure: 1670 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.66" W x 8.8" (0.97 lbs) 207 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |