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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse

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How does the US make sense of its 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 revolv...

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Main Author: Spieler, Sophie (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
Series:American Culture Studies 33
Subjects:
Literary studies: general
Cultural studies
Social Stratification
Distinction
Meritocracy
Campus Novels
Capital
Princeton
Elite Education
Class
Discourse Analysis
Neoliberalism
Ivy League
Curtis Sittenfeld
Literature
Education
America
American Studies
Cultural Studies
Cultural Theory
Literary Studies
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Summary:How does the US make sense of its 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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (276 p.)
ISBN:9783839457290
9783837657296
Access:Open Access

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