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While it has become commonplace to discount British novelist Kingsley Amis as a "naïve realist," a mere comedic novelist, even a misogynist and failed moralist, Andrew James argues that Amis was seriously concerned with the role of the artist in society and explored this subject in many of his novels. Throughout the first twenty years of his career, Amis used bad artists as whimsical characters, or antimodels, that helped identify his artistic preferences and fictional techniques. He became convinced that the relationship between an artist and his audience was reciprocal and that both the outer audience and the artist's inner circle must be held accountable for the production of bad literature. During the last twenty years of his career, Amis no longer concerned himself with satirizing bad artists, but instead explored ways of ameliorating them. James shows that the development of antimodels as fully drawn characters and Amis's insistence upon reciprocity in the writer-reader relationship demonstrate that he was more than just a comedic writer, and was aware of himself as an artist with social responsibilities. The first study of Amis to analyze manuscript revisions in all of his novel drafts, Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience shows the more serious side of a complex writer who has yet to receive the critical recognition he deserves.

Artists in literature. --- Amis, Kingsley --- Amis, Kingsley William --- Ėmis, Kingsli --- Markham, Robert --- Tanner, William --- Criticism and interpretation.

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When we elevate pets to the status of social companions, we undermine the distinction between human and non-human. Through an exploration of pet-keeping across history and between cultures, this study reassesses our relationships with animals.

History of civilization --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Pet owners --- Animaux familiers --- Relations homme-animal. --- Propriétaires d'animaux familiers --- Bonding, Human-Pet --- Human-animal relationships --- Pets --- History. --- Social aspects --- Bonding, Human-Pet. --- History --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Propriétaires d'animaux familiers. --- Histoire. --- Human-Animal Bond. --- Human-Animal Bond

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"California in a Time of Excellence follows the Golden State's efforts to reform its public school system from 1983 to the present. Beginning with progressive curriculum reform initiatives that were launched even before the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE) issued A Nation at Risk in 1983, James Andrew LaSpina traces these reform efforts through recurring culture wars, major clashes of personality, and a conflict between the state's tradition of progressive educational policy and a culture of conservatism that colored much of the so-called Left Coast's history since the sixties. While the battles over curriculum reform in California reflect those at the national level, the political world surrounding this conflict reveals the enormous significance of the conflict and its implications for our national future."--Jacket.

Educational change --- Education and state --- Education --- Social Sciences --- History of Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Change, Educational --- Education change --- Education reform --- Educational reform --- Reform, Education --- School reform --- Educational planning --- Educational innovations --- History. --- History --- Government policy

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Pharmacology --- Textbooks & monographs 1891-2000.