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Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community

Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0333918827
ISBN13: 9780333918821
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Dec 17 2001
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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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