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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
    sub title: Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
  name:
    name part: Spieler, Sophie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
    role:
      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  name:
    name part: Freie Universität Berlin
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      role term: funder.
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  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (276 pages)
  abstract: How do the US make sense of their own 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.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Exposition: Approaching the Elite Educational Space -- 1. Introductory Remarks -- 2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American Culture -- 3. 'Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent': Eliteness in America -- 4. 'Excellence and Equity': Merit as the Price of Admission -- 5. 'A Touchy Subject'? Class and Elite Education -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- II. Critique: Elite Education and Its Discontents -- 1. Introductory Remarks -- 2. Mapping the Critical Landscape -- 3. Progressivist Critiques -- 4. Conservative Critiques -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- III. Affirmation: Self-Representation at Princeton University -- 1. Introductory Remarks -- 2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and Pathology -- 3. A Meritocracy of Affect -- 4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, Community -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- IV. Imagination: Fictionalizations of the Elite Educational Experience -- 1. Introductory Remarks -- 2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite Education -- 3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, 'Preppiness', and the Neoliberal Imagination -- 4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep's Cultural Work -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Conclusion -- Works Cited
  target audience: specialized
  note: Sophie Spieler.
  note: funded by Freie Universität Berlin
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Elite (Social sciences)
    topic: Education
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Upper class
    topic: Education
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Élite (Sciences sociales)
    topic: Éducation
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Classes supérieures
    topic: Éducation
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: American
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Elite (Social sciences)
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Upper class
    topic: Education
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: America.
  subject:
    topic: American Studies.
  subject:
    topic: Campus Novels.
  subject:
    topic: Capital.
  subject:
    topic: Class.
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Studies.
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Theory.
  subject:
    topic: Curtis Sittenfeld.
  subject:
    topic: Discourse Analysis.
  subject:
    topic: Distinction.
  subject:
    topic: Education.
  subject:
    topic: Elite Education.
  subject:
    topic: Ivy League.
  subject:
    topic: Literary Studies.
  subject:
    topic: Literature.
  subject:
    topic: Meritocracy.
  subject:
    topic: Neoliberalism.
  subject:
    topic: Princeton.
  classification: LC4941
  classification: 371.826210973
  classification: 970.98
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    title info:
      title: American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; 33
  identifier: 3839457297
  identifier: 9783839457290
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 210729
    record change date: 20240212223715.5
    record identifier: in00004775847
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng