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 |
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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)
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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)
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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