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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few: Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
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Abstract How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolv... mehr
How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Kulturwissenschaft; Distinktion; Kapital; Meritokratie; Neoliberalismus; Diskursanalyse; Literatur; Bildung
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
Social Stratification; Campus Novels; Princeton; Elite Education; Class; Ivy League; Curtis Sittenfeld; America; American Studies; Cultural Theory; Literary Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
273 S.
Schriftenreihe
American Culture Studies, 33
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457290
ISBN
978-3-8394-5729-0
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)