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Elaine Showalter Faculty Towers (Paperback) Personal Takes
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- Faculty Towers
- Publication Name
- Faculty Towers
- Title
- Faculty Towers
- Subtitle
- The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0812220854
- EAN
- 9780812220858
- ISBN
- 9780812220858
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Year
- 2009
- Release Date
- 31/08/2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 216mm
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Series
- Personal Takes
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Topic
- General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 152 Pages
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"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred being cast as the luscious Concord grape to my role as the withered prune." In the days before there were handbooks, self-help guides, or advice columns for graduate students and junior faculty, there were academic novels teaching us how a proper professor should speak, behave, dress, think, write, love, and (more than occasionally) solve murders. If many of these books are wildly funny, others paint pictures of failure and pain, of lives wasted or destroyed. Like the suburbs, Elaine Showalter notes, the campus can be the site of pastoral and refuge. But even ivory towers can be structurally unsound, or at least built with glass ceilings. Though we love to read about them, all is not well in the faculty towers, and the situation has been worsening. In Faculty Towers , Showalter takes a personal look at the ways novels about the academy have charted changes in the university and society since 1950. With her readings of C. P. Snow's idealized world of Cambridge dons, the globe-trotting antics of David Lodge's Morris Zapp, the sleuthing Kate Fansler in Amanda Cross's best-selling mystery series, or the recent spate of bitter novels in which narratives of sexual harassment seem to serve as fables of power, anger, and desire, Showalter holds a mirror up to the world she has inhabited over the course of a distinguished and often controversial career.
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University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812220854
ISBN-13
9780812220858
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73308890
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Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
152 Pages
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Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.5in
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"[Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."- The Independent, "Her survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."--The Independent, "[Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."-The Independent, "[Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites."-- The Independent, [Showalter's] survey has all the stylistic snappiness and relish for mischief that marks the funniest books she cites.
Publication Name
Faculty Towers : the Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Table of Content
Introduction: What I Read and What I Read For 1. The Fifties: Ivory Towers 2. The Sixties: Tribal Towers 3. The Seventies: Glass Towers 4. The Eighties: Feminist Towers 5. The Nineties: Tenured Towers 6. Into the Twenty-First Century: Tragic Towers Conclusion Notes Bibliography of Academic Novels Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
823.009/3557
Series
Personal Takes Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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