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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Postwar Academic Fiction
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Ethical Criticism and Postwar Literary Theory
- 2 Reading the "Heavy Industry of the Mind": Ethical Criticism and the AngloAmerican Academic Novel
- 3 Negotiating the University Community: Lucky Jim and the Politics of Academe
- 4 Scholar Adventurers in Exile: Nabokovâs Dr. Kinbote and Professor Pnin
- 5 Searching for Goodness and the Ethical Self: Joyce Carol Oatesâs The Hungry Ghosts
- 6 The Professoriate in Love: David Lodgeâs Academic Trilogy and the Ethics of Romance
- 7 Performing the Academy: Alterity and David Mametâs Oleanna
- 8 Campus Xenophobia and the Multicultural Project: Ishmael Reedâs Japanese by Spring
- 9 Academic Nonfction and the Culture Warriors: âTeaching the Confictsâ in Gilbert and Gubarâs Masterpiece Theatre
- 10 Jane Smileyâs Academic Carnival: Rooting for Ethics at Moo U.
- 11 Conclusion: Ethical Criticism and the Academic Novel beyond the Culture Wars
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index