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Academic Tribes
Hazard Adams
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Description for Academic Tribes
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
In The Academic Tribes, an English professor who has survived stints as a dean and a vice-chancellor "takes a gentle, satiric sideswipe at academia, its foibles, follies, and myths" (ALA Booklist). Hazard Adams' parody of anthropological analysis describes the principles and antinomies of academic politics, campus stereotypes, the various tribes divided by discipline, the agonies accompanying each stage on the way to full professorship, and, of course, the power struggle between faculties and academic administrators. This first paperback edition also includes a new preface looking back at the decade since the book's original publication and an appendix that adds three ... Read more
In The Academic Tribes, an English professor who has survived stints as a dean and a vice-chancellor "takes a gentle, satiric sideswipe at academia, its foibles, follies, and myths" (ALA Booklist). Hazard Adams' parody of anthropological analysis describes the principles and antinomies of academic politics, campus stereotypes, the various tribes divided by discipline, the agonies accompanying each stage on the way to full professorship, and, of course, the power struggle between faculties and academic administrators. This first paperback edition also includes a new preface looking back at the decade since the book's original publication and an appendix that adds three ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Weight
252g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252060007
SKU
V9780252060007
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About Hazard Adams
Hazard Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Washington. His many publications include Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision, The Interests of Criticism, and Critical Theory since Plato, as well as two novels, The Truth about Dragons: An Anti-romance and The Horses of Instruction.
Reviews for Academic Tribes
"A delicious chowder of quips and ironies. One may have heard individual lines at faculty cocktail parties, but listening to all the disparate voices of the university together, one realizes how much we sound like a thousand Franz Kafkas trying to sing a madrigal."
Chronicle of Higher Education "An enjoyable description (and vivisection!) of the various people in Academe. Essential for ... Read more
Chronicle of Higher Education "An enjoyable description (and vivisection!) of the various people in Academe. Essential for ... Read more