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UNINA9910480755703321 |
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Hamel Nathalie |
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La collection Coverdale : La construction d'un patrimoine national / / Nathalie Hamel |
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Québec, [Ontario] : , : Les Presses de l'Université Laval, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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2-7637-0929-X |
1-4593-3816-2 |
1-4416-3895-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (390 p.) |
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La Collection Chaire Fernand-Dumont sur la culture |
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Cultural property - Protection - Québec (Province) |
Cultural property - Protection - Canada |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910968474503321 |
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Autore |
Liu Catherine |
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Titolo |
American idyll : academic antielitism as cultural critique / / Catherine Liu |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Elite (Social sciences) - United States |
Intellectuals - United States |
Education, Higher - United States |
United States Social conditions 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: populist idylls, cultural politics -- The problem with the meritocracy -- Ordinary Americans, average students -- The curious cult of religious practicality -- Against all experts: no experience necessary -- The new age of cultural studies: crisis in the PMC -- Conclusion. |
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A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones.Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks aga |
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