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  1. The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few : Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
    Author: Spieler, Sophie
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    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,... more

     

    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.

     
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  2. <<The>> wealthy, the brilliant, the few
    elite education in contemporary American discourse
    Author: Spieler, Sophie
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839457290
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    DDC Categories: 420
    Series: American Culture Studies ; Volume 33
    Other subjects: 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; Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
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    Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, [2017]
  3. The wealthy, the brilliant, the few
    elite education in contemporary American discourse
    Author: Spieler, Sophie
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

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    elite education in contemporary American discourse
    Author: Spieler, Sophie
    Published: 2021
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783837657296; 3837657299
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    9783837657296
    DDC Categories: 370
    Series: American Culture Studies ; Volume 33
    Subjects: USA; Bildungssystem; Chancengleichheit; Ivy League; Meritokratie; Elite; Entstehung;
    Other subjects: 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; Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: 273 Seiten, 23 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [257]-273

    Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, [2017]
  5. The wealthy, the brilliant, the few
    elite education in contemporary American discourse
    Author: Spieler, Sophie
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    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,... more

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    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 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

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839457290
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: HR 1706
    Series: American Culture Studies ; 33
    Subjects: Elite (Social sciences); Upper class; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Other subjects: America; American Studies; Campus Novels; Capital; Class; Cultural Studies; Cultural Theory; Curtis Sittenfeld; Discourse Analysis; Distinction; Education; Elite Education; Ivy League; Literary Studies; Literature; Meritocracy; Neoliberalism; Princeton
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p)
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    Dissertation, Freier Universität Berlin, [2021]