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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse / Sophie Spieler
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse / Sophie Spieler
Autore Spieler Sophie (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland)
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina 970.980
Collana American Culture Studies
Soggetto topico Social Stratification; Distinction; Meritocracy; Campus Novels; Capital; Princeton; Elite Education; Class; Discourse Analysis; Neoliberalism; Ivy League; Curtis Sittenfeld; Literature; Education; America; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; Literary Studies
Soggetto non controllato America
American Studies
Campus Novels
Capital
Class
Cultural Studies
Cultural Theory
Curtis Sittenfeld
Discourse Analysis
Distinction
Education
Elite Education
Ivy League
Literary Studies
Literature
Meritocracy
Neoliberalism
Princeton
ISBN 3-8394-5729-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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 257
Record Nr. UNINA-9910493739803321
Spieler Sophie (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland)  
Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse / Sophie Spieler
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse / Sophie Spieler
Autore Spieler Sophie (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland)
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina 970.980
Collana American Culture Studies
Soggetto topico Social Stratification; Distinction; Meritocracy; Campus Novels; Capital; Princeton; Elite Education; Class; Discourse Analysis; Neoliberalism; Ivy League; Curtis Sittenfeld; Literature; Education; America; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; Literary Studies
Soggetto non controllato America
American Studies
Campus Novels
Capital
Class
Cultural Studies
Cultural Theory
Curtis Sittenfeld
Discourse Analysis
Distinction
Education
Elite Education
Ivy League
Literary Studies
Literature
Meritocracy
Neoliberalism
Princeton
ISBN 3-8394-5729-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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 257
Record Nr. UNISA-996433044203316
Spieler Sophie (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland)  
Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
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