Sense and Nonsensibility

ebook Lampoons of Learning and Literature

By Lawrence Douglas

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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
  • Sense and Nonsensibility