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oapen-20.500.12657-501392022-01-25T10:57:01Z The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few Spieler, Sophie 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 bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies 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. 2021-07-19T13:54:42Z 2021-07-19T13:54:42Z 2021 book ONIX_20210719_9783839457290_11 9783839457290 9783837657296 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50139 eng American Culture Studies application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783839457290.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c a6adce6b-3f26-4535-92d8-598288bff431 9783839457290 9783837657296 transcript Verlag 33 276 Bielefeld [grantnumber unknown] Freie Universität Berlin Free University of Berlin open access
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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 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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