Sense and Nonsensibility

Presents an irreverent parody of highbrow literary culture, looking at literature with such sections as the Academy Awards for novels, Home Shopping University, the best "Self-helplessness" books, and "Ask the Academic Ethicist," an advice column.

ISBN	0743260481	Pages	196
ISBN13	9780743260480 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Simon & Schuster	Weight (grammes)	256
Imprint	Fireside	Published in	New York, NY
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	216
Publication date	01 Aug 2004	Width (mm)	140
Library of Congress	2004045366	Spine width (mm)	11
DEWEY	818.607	Academic level	Undergraduate
DEWEY edition	DC21

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.

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