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- Condition
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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Touchstone
- ISBN
- 9780743260480
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Touchstone
ISBN-10
0743260481
ISBN-13
9780743260480
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30445275
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sense and Nonsensibility : Lampoons of Learning and Literature
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
General, Form / Parodies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Humor
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-045366
Reviews
Anne Fadiman, author of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader Most humor writing is either smart but not funny or funny but not smart. In Sense and Nonsensibility, you have -- at long last -- a book that will not only make you laugh out loud but persuade those who see you reading it that your SAT scores were at least fifty points higher than they really were., Anders Henriksson, author of Non Campus Mentis Monty Python meets Immanuel Kant. Douglas and George have a delicious sense of the absurd., Anders Henriksson, author ofNon Campus MentisMonty Python meets Immanuel Kant. Douglas and George have a delicious sense of the absurd., Melvin Jules Bukietauthor ofA Faker's DozenTired of reading about war crimes and the semiotics of quilting bees? Then perhaps Sense and Nonsensibility by Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George is for you. Biting any benign hand that has fed them and their progeny for years, Douglas and George chew upon the idiocies (as well as the idiohypnoglossia) of contemporary academics and publishers. This makes one ponder three fascinating questions: 1. how the hell did they get tenure? 2. how did any sane publisher accept this manuscript? 3. how can the rest of us continue to exist in a universe that also contains them? Simply put, they are curs and infidels and their work ought to appeal to same., Melvin Jules Bukietauthor of A Faker's DozenTired of reading about war crimes and the semiotics of quilting bees? Then perhaps Sense and Nonsensibility by Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George is for you. Biting any benign hand that has fed them and their progeny for years, Douglas and George chew upon the idiocies (as well as the idiohypnoglossia) of contemporary academics and publishers. This makes one ponder three fascinating questions: 1. how the hell did they get tenure? 2. how did any sane publisher accept this manuscript? 3. how can the rest of us continue to exist in a universe that also contains them? Simply put, they are curs and infidels and their work ought to appeal to same., Melvin Jules Bukietauthor of A Faker's Dozen Tired of reading about war crimes and the semiotics of quilting bees? Then perhaps Sense and Nonsensibility by Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George is for you. Biting any benign hand that has fed them and their progeny for years, Douglas and George chew upon the idiocies (as well as the idiohypnoglossia) of contemporary academics and publishers. This makes one ponder three fascinating questions: 1. how the hell did they get tenure? 2. how did any sane publisher accept this manuscript? 3. how can the rest of us continue to exist in a universe that also contains them? Simply put, they are curs and infidels and their work ought to appeal to same., Melvin Jules Bukiet author of A Faker's Dozen Tired of reading about war crimes and the semiotics of quilting bees? Then perhaps Sense and Nonsensibility by Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George is for you. Biting any benign hand that has fed them and their progeny for years, Douglas and George chew upon the idiocies (as well as the idiohypnoglossia) of contemporary academics and publishers. This makes one ponder three fascinating questions: 1. how the hell did they get tenure? 2. how did any sane publisher accept this manuscript? 3. how can the rest of us continue to exist in a universe that also contains them? Simply put, they are curs and infidels and their work ought to appeal to same., Anders Henriksson, author of Non Campus MentisMonty Python meets Immanuel Kant. Douglas and George have a delicious sense of the absurd., William H. Pritchard author of Shelf Life and Updike These "Lampoons of Learning and Literature" are both learned and extremely funny. The authors are thoroughly, indeed obsessively, in touch with the technology, sociology, and general weirdness of contemporary life (especially its academic aspects) and they provide us with original takes on crucial matters like Home Shopping, Footnotes, SAT scores, Crossover Bestsellers, and many others. The literary firm of Douglas and George should receive a medal for these satiric correctives of current foibles., Anne Fadiman, author ofEx Libris: Confessions of a Common ReaderMost humor writing is either smart but not funny or funny but not smart. In Sense and Nonsensibility, you have -- at long last -- a book that will not only make you laugh out loud but persuade those who see you reading it that your SAT scores were at least fifty points higher than they really were., William H. Pritchardauthor ofShelf LifeandUpdikeThese "Lampoons of Learning and Literature" are both learned and extremely funny. The authors are thoroughly, indeed obsessively, in touch with the technology, sociology, and general weirdness of contemporary life (especially its academic aspects) and they provide us with original takes on crucial matters like Home Shopping, Footnotes, SAT scores, Crossover Bestsellers, and many others. The literary firm of Douglas and George should receive a medal for these satiric correctives of current foibles., William H. Pritchardauthor of Shelf Life and UpdikeThese "Lampoons of Learning and Literature" are both learned and extremely funny. The authors are thoroughly, indeed obsessively, in touch with the technology, sociology, and general weirdness of contemporary life (especially its academic aspects) and they provide us with original takes on crucial matters like Home Shopping, Footnotes, SAT scores, Crossover Bestsellers, and many others. The literary firm of Douglas and George should receive a medal for these satiric correctives of current foibles., Anne Fadiman, author of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common ReaderMost humor writing is either smart but not funny or funny but not smart. In Sense and Nonsensibility, you have -- at long last -- a book that will not only make you laugh out loud but persuade those who see you reading it that your SAT scores were at least fifty points higher than they really were., William H. Pritchardauthor of Shelf Life and Updike These "Lampoons of Learning and Literature" are both learned and extremely funny. The authors are thoroughly, indeed obsessively, in touch with the technology, sociology, and general weirdness of contemporary life (especially its academic aspects) and they provide us with original takes on crucial matters like Home Shopping, Footnotes, SAT scores, Crossover Bestsellers, and many others. The literary firm of Douglas and George should receive a medal for these satiric correctives of current foibles.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
818/.607
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Introduction Part I Bibliomania Literary Mergers How to Write a Crossover Bestseller Novel Awards Happiness: A Personal Ordeal Poetry Olympiad Curing the Classics Dear Literary Ethicist... Literary Home Pages Writer's Colony Embed eBazaar.com "A Funerall Elegie" Reconsidered Sniff This Book! Part II Academania Teaching to Win Dear Academic Car Consultant... Affected Accent Summer Camp Dear Academic Ethicist... Saving the SAT Class Notes Graduate Students Anonymous Acme Tenure, Inc. Iron Prof Further Tips to Tenure Home Shopping U. Dear Academic Therapist... The OSHA Report on Academia Interview with the President Dear Academic Therapist...(again) A Footnote to the History of the Footnote Part III Mondomania 1-800-THERAPY The Omnist The Philosopher Is In The Penis Orations Talk Bad to Me Self-Helplessness: Some Recent Titles The Divine Merger It Kant Be Done. Not So, Say Fox and Warner Adventure Spas Freud's Phonographic Memory and the Case of the Missing Kiddush Cups Coda Interview with Ourselves Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to pompous professors; from anal-retentive authors to plagiarizing poets; from snake-oil therapists to bestselling illiterati. This singular collection by Professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George brings together their most popular pieces, along with many brand-new ones, including: - The Academy Awards for novels -- with categories for "Best Female Protagonist -- Doomed," "Best Narrator -- Unreliable," and "Best Novel -- Unfinishable by Reader" - Home Shopping University -- offering the greatest ideas in Western history at rock-bottom prices - I'm Okay, I'm Okay: Accepting Narcissism -- the best in "Self-helplessness books" - The Penis Orations -- Iron Man's answer to The Vagina Monologues - "Ask the Academic Ethicist" -- their notorious advice column, which has shocked higher education, Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to pompous professors; from anal-retentive authors to plagiarizing poets; from snake-oil therapists to bestselling illiterati. This singular collection by Professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George brings together their most popular pieces, along with many brand-new ones, including: * The Academy Awards for novels -- with categories for "Best Female Protagonist -- Doomed," "Best Narrator -- Unreliable," and "Best Novel -- Unfinishable by Reader" * Home Shopping University -- offering the greatest ideas in Western history at rock-bottom prices * I'm Okay, I'm Okay: Accepting Narcissism -- the best in "Self-helplessness books" * The Penis Orations -- Iron Man's answer to The Vagina Monologues * "Ask the Academic Ethicist" -- their notorious advice column, which has shocked higher education, Two widely published humour columnists and 'bad boys' of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture., Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age.Sense and Nonsensibilitypokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to pompous professors; from anal-retentive authors to plagiarizing poets; from snake-oil therapists to bestselling illiterati.This singular collection by Professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George brings together their most popular pieces, along with many brand-new ones, including:• The Academy Awards for novels -- with categories for "Best Female Protagonist -- Doomed," "Best Narrator -- Unreliable," and "Best Novel -- Unfinishable by Reader"• Home Shopping University -- offering the greatest ideas in Western history at rock-bottom prices•I'm Okay, I'm Okay: Accepting Narcissism-- the best in "Self-helplessness books"•The Penis Orations-- Iron Man's answer toThe Vagina Monologues• "Ask the Academic Ethicist" -- their notorious advice column, which has shocked higher education
LC Classification Number
PN169.D68 2004
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