Schryer, Stephen. <br/><br/>
Fantasies of the new class :  ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction / 
Stephen Schryer. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  2011. 
 - 278 p. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: fantasies of the new class -- The republic of letters: the new criticism, Harvard sociology, and the idea of the university -- Life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma: Ralph Ellison, Gunnar Myrdal, and the project of national therapy -- Mary McCarthy's field guide to U.S. intellectuals: tradition and modernization theory in Birds of America -- Saul Bellow's class of explaining creatures: Mr. Sammler's planet and the rise of neoconservatism -- Experts without institutions: New Left professionalism in Marge Piercy and Ursula K. Le Guin -- Don Delillo's academia: revisiting the new class in White noise. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231157568 9780231157575 9780231527477 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Social classes in literature.<br/>Professional employees in literature.<br/>Elite (Social sciences) in literature.<br/>Professional employees--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374  / S291 F 2011