Lawrence Douglas, Alexander George

Sense and Nonsensibility (eBook, ePUB)

Lampoons of Learning and Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to pompous professors; from anal-retentive authors to plagiarizing poets; from snake-oil therapists to bestselling illiterati.

This singular collection by Professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George brings together their most popular pieces, along with many brand-new ones, including:

. The Academy Awards for novels -- with categories for "Best Female Protagonist -- Doomed," "Best Narrator -- Unreliable," and "Best Novel -- Unfinishable by Reader"

. Home Shopping University -- offering the greatest ideas in Western history at rock-bottom prices

. I'm Okay, I'm Okay: Accepting Narcissism -- the best in "Self-helplessness books"

. The Penis Orations -- Iron Man's answer to The Vagina Monologues

. "Ask the Academic Ethicist" -- their notorious advice column, which has shocked higher education

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781416584827
• Artikelnr.: 49186671

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I
Bibliomania
Literary Mergers
How to Write a Crossover Bestseller
Novel Awards
Happiness: A Personal Ordeal
Poetry Olympiad
Curing the Classics
Dear Literary Ethicist...
Literary Home Pages
Writer's Colony Embed
eBazaar.com
"A Funerall Elegie" Reconsidered
Sniff This Book!
Part II
Academania
Teaching to Win
Dear Academic Car Consultant...
Affected Accent Summer Camp
Dear Academic Ethicist...
Saving the SAT
Class Notes
Graduate Students Anonymous
Acme Tenure, Inc.
Iron Prof
Further Tips to Tenure
Home Shopping U.
Dear Academic Therapist...
The OSHA Report on Academia
Interview with the President
Dear Academic Therapist...(again)
A Footnote to the History of the Footnote
Part III
Mondomania
1-800-THERAPY
The Omnist
The Philosopher Is In
The Penis Orations
Talk Bad to Me
Self-Helplessness: Some Recent Titles
The Divine Merger
It Kant Be Done. Not So, Say Fox and Warner
Adventure Spas
Freud's Phonographic Memory and the Case of the Missing Kiddush Cups
Coda
Interview with Ourselves
Acknowledgments
Index