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Postwar Academic Fiction

Satire, Ethics, Community

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  • © 2002

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  1. Kenneth Womack

    1. Penn State Altoona, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Ethical Criticism and Postwar Literary Theory

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 1-18

  3. Reading the “Heavy Industry of the Mind”: Ethical Criticism and the Anglo-American Academic Novel

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 19-26

  4. Negotiating the University Community: Lucky Jim and the Politics of Academe

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 27-42

  5. Scholar Adventurers in Exile: Nabokov’s Dr. Kinbote and Professor Pnin

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 43-59

  6. Searching for Goodness and the Ethical Self: Joyce Carol Oates’s The Hungry Ghosts

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 60-76

  7. The Professoriate in Love: David Lodge’s Academic Trilogy and the Ethics of Romance

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 77-97

  8. Performing the Academy: Alterity and David Mamet’s Oleanna

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 98-108

  9. Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project: Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 109-126

  10. Academic Nonfiction and the Culture Warriors: “Teaching the Conflicts” in Gilbert and Gubar’s Masterpiece Theatre

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 127-142

  11. Jane Smiley’s Academic Carnival: Rooting for Ethics at Moo U.

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 143-155

  12. Conclusion: Ethical Criticism and the Academic Novel beyond the Culture Wars

    • Kenneth Womack
    Pages 156-163

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 164-207
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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.

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'...this book (and the satires it discusses) might be instructive to university faculty, who often take themselves too seriously.' - J.C. Kohl, Choice

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  • Penn State Altoona, USA

    Kenneth Womack

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KENNETH WOMACK is Assistant Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University's Altoona College. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American literature as well as on bibliographical and textual criticism. In addition to serving as co-editor of Oxford University Press's The Year's Work in English Studies, he is editor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory.

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