Sense and Nonsensibility

Lampoons of Learning and Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

At last, the thinking person's answer to the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless, anti-intellectual age. SENSE AND NONSENSIBILITY pokes fun at everyone from self-important scholars to pompous professors; from anally-retentive authors to plagiarising poets; from snake-oil therapists to the cyber-speaking cognoscenti. This singular collection by professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George brings together some of their most popular pieces, along with several all-new-ones, including: - The Academy Awards for novels - with categories for 'Best Female Protagonist, Doomed', 'Best Narrator, Unreliable', and 'Best Novel, Unfinishable by a Reader' - Home Shopping University - offering the greatest ideas in western history at rock-bottom prices - The best in 'Self-helplessness' books - I'M OKAY, I'M OKAY: ACCEPTING NARCISSISM - THE PENIS ORATIONS - literature's answer to THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES From pay-per-call phone lines that cater to cerebral fetishes to behind-the-scenes reports on what happens when Hollywood takes on Kant, SENSE AND NONSENSIBILITY is for anyone looking for a good read, a good laugh and life beyond Harry Potter.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-16
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Simon & Schuster
ISBN:9780743260480

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Lawrence Douglas is a professor of law and jurisprudence at Amherst College. He is the author of several scholarly books, including Will He Go? and The Right Wrong Man. He has also authored several novels and parody books, including The Catastrophist and The Vices. His writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

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Anders Henriksson, author of Non Campus Mentis Monty Python meets Immanuel Kant. Douglas and George have a delicious sense of the absurd.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsIntroductionPart IBibliomaniaLiterary MergersHow to Write a Crossover BestsellerNovel AwardsHappiness: A Personal OrdealPoetry OlympiadCuring the ClassicsDear Literary Ethicist...Literary Home PagesWriter's Colony EmbedeBazaar.com"A Funerall Elegie" ReconsideredSniff This Book!Part IIAcademaniaTeaching to WinDear Academic Car Consultant...Affected Accent Summer CampDear Academic Ethicist...Saving the SATClass NotesGraduate Students AnonymousAcme Tenure, Inc.Iron ProfFurther Tips to TenureHome Shopping U.Dear Academic Therapist...The OSHA Report on AcademiaInterview with the PresidentDear Academic Therapist...(again)A Footnote to the History of the FootnotePart IIIMondomania1-800-THERAPYThe OmnistThe Philosopher Is InThe Penis OrationsTalk Bad to MeSelf-Helplessness: Some Recent TitlesThe Divine MergerIt Kant Be Done. Not So, Say Fox and WarnerAdventure SpasFreud's Phonographic Memory and the Case of the Missing Kiddush CupsCodaInterview with OurselvesAcknowledgmentsIndex