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SENSE AND NONSENSIBILITY IBD

ALEXANDER GEORGE / LAWRENCE DOUGLAS
FIRESIDE
08 / 2004
9780743260480
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Sinopsis

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