02677nas 2200733-- 450 991015452380332120240911213022.0(CKB)954927547255(CONSER)---62001869-(EXLCZ)9995492754725520751019b19571991 --- aengtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJournal of mental deficiency researchOxfordBlackwell Scientific Publications on behalf of the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults1 online resourceRefereed/Peer-reviewedPrint version: Journal of mental deficiency research. 0022-264X (DLC) 62001869 (OCoLC)1715909 JMDRJ MENT DEFIC RESJ. Ment. Defic. Res.Intellectual disabilityResearchPeriodicalsIntellectual disabilityPeriodicalsIntellectual disabilityIntellectual DisabilityDéficience intellectuellePériodiquesDéficience intellectuelleRecherchePériodiquesDéficience intellectuelleintellectual disabilityaatIntellectual disabilityfast(OCoLC)fst01016625Intellectual disabilityResearchfast(OCoLC)fst01016646Mentale retardatiegttMental retardationPeriodicalsnliPeriodical.LaneConnex.Periodicals.Internet Resources.Periodicals.fastPeriodicals.lcgftMental Health Learning DisabilitiesDisabilityIntellectual disabilityResearchIntellectual disabilityIntellectual disability.Intellectual Disability.Déficience intellectuelleDéficience intellectuelleRechercheDéficience intellectuelle.intellectual disability.Intellectual disability.Intellectual disabilityResearch.Mentale retardatie.Mental retardation618.928588National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children,National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults,Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults,JOURNAL9910154523803321exl_impl conversionJournal of mental deficiency research794508UNINA04872oam 2201045 c 450 991049373980332120260302090207.09783839457290383945729710.1515/9783839457290(CKB)5590000000487000(DE-B1597)582835(DE-B1597)9783839457290(MiAaPQ)EBC6763297(Au-PeEL)EBL6763297(OCoLC)1262308082(transcript Verlag)9783839457290(MiAaPQ)EBC6956328(Au-PeEL)EBL6956328(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71379(MiAaPQ)EBC30536255(Au-PeEL)EBL30536255(ScCtBLL)569a8da4-2f66-46b2-9627-e7ebf7d4c57e(Perlego)2314466(oapen)doab71379(EXLCZ)99559000000048700020260302d2021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Wealthy, the Brilliant, the FewElite Education in Contemporary American DiscourseSophie Spieler1st ed.Bielefeldtranscript Verlag20211 online resource (276 p.)American Culture Studies9783837657296 3837657299 Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 1. Introductory Remarks 21 2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American Culture 21 3. 'Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent': Eliteness in America 29 4. 'Excellence and Equity': Merit as the Price of Admission 50 5. 'A Touchy Subject'? Class and Elite Education 58 6. Concluding Remarks 67 1. Introductory Remarks 69 2. Mapping the Critical Landscape 73 3. Progressivist Critiques 83 4. Conservative Critiques 95 5. Concluding Remarks 110 1. Introductory Remarks 113 2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and Pathology 118 3. A Meritocracy of Affect 123 4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, Community 135 5. Concluding Remarks 170 1. Introductory Remarks 175 2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite Education 178 3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, 'Preppiness', and the Neoliberal Imagination 186 4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep's Cultural Work 211 5. Concluding Remarks 242 Conclusion 249 Works Cited 257How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.American Culture StudiesSpieler, The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the FewElite Education in Contemporary American DiscourseSocial StratificationDistinctionMeritocracyCampus NovelsCapitalPrincetonElite EducationClassDiscourse AnalysisNeoliberalismIvy LeagueCurtis SittenfeldLiteratureEducationAmericaAmerican StudiesCultural StudiesCultural TheoryLiterary StudiesSocial StratificationDistinctionMeritocracyCampus NovelsCapitalPrincetonElite EducationClassDiscourse AnalysisNeoliberalismIvy LeagueCurtis SittenfeldLiteratureEducationAmericaAmerican StudiesCultural StudiesCultural TheoryLiterary Studies970.980Spieler Sophie<p>Sophie Spieler, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland</p>aut954531Freie Universität Berlinfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910493739803321The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few2159003UNINA