Schryer Fantasies of the New Class

Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-52747-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schryer, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fantasies of the New Class
1. The Republic of Letters: The New Criticism, by Harvard Sociology
2. "Life Upon the Horns of the White Man's Dilemma": Ralph Ellison, by Gunnar Myrdal
3. Mary McCarthy's Field Guide to U.S. Intellectuals: Tradition and Modernization Theory in Birds of America
4. Saul Bellow's Class of Explaining Creatures: Mr. Sammler's Planet and the Rise of Neoconservatism
5. Experts Without Institutions: New Left Professionalism in Marge Piercy and Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Don DeLillo's Academia: Revisiting the New Class in White Noise
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Schryer is assistant professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. He has published in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and Arizona Quarterly.