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The plot of satire
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ISBN: 0300006217 9780300006216 Year: 1974 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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The death of literature
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ISBN: 0300047835 Year: 1990 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press


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The imaginary library: an essay on literature and society
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ISBN: 0691065047 1306990866 Year: 1982 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.

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Shakespeare, the king's playwright : theater in the Stuart court, 1603-1613
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ISBN: 0300061811 Year: 1995 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London Yale University Press

Printing technology, letters & Samuel Johnson
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ISBN: 0691014752 0691066922 9780691014753 Year: 1987 Publisher: Princeton University Press

The fruited plain
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ISBN: 1281721727 9786611721725 0300128347 9780300128345 9781281721723 0300092903 9780300092905 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray.In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution-the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with his barbs, he reveals both the fools and the knaves among us. Kernan's modern-day Joads find themselves in a distorted world where a surplus of democracy not only fails to free its inhabitants but also makes them vulnerable to the machinations of greedy and unscrupulous exploiters. Echoing the voices of such other provocative wits as Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe, Kernan will make you laugh at the absurdity of American culture and-in all likelihood-at yourself.

In Plato's cave
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ISBN: 0585388202 9780585388205 9780300145502 0300145500 0300075898 9780300075892 Year: 2000 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Yale University Press

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In this delightful and candid memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during a distinguished career in some of higher education's most hallowed halls. With his customary wit and insight, Kernan recounts his experiences at Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton in the company of an array of fascinating colleagues. And he describes from an insider's point of view how colleges and universities in the second half of the twentieth century have been transformed in radical ways.Against the background of what it was like to work and teach in turbulent decades of change, Kernan details the broader educational battles in which he became embroiled. He discusses the struggle for equality of opportunity for women and minorities; the questioning of administrative and intellectual authority; the appearance of deconstructive types of theory; the technological shift from printed to electronic information; the politicization of the classroom; and much more. His vividly remembered account is not only a unique personal story, it is a thought-provoking history that brims with insight into what has been won and lost in the culture wars.


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The Imaginary Library
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ISBN: 9781400855667 1400855667 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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The cankered muse: satire of the English Renaissance
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ISBN: 0208016163 9780208016164 Year: 1976 Publisher: Hamden (Conn.): Archon books,

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