{"product_id":"academic-tribes-9780252060007","title":"Academic Tribes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A delicious chowder of quips and ironies. One may have heard individual lines at faculty cocktail parties, but listening to all the disparate voices of the university together, one realizes how much we sound like a thousand Franz Kafkas trying to sing a madrigal.\"--\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An enjoyable description (and vivisection!) of the various people in Academe. Essential for anyone who extracts his livelihood from the forests primeval of Academe and who periodically suffers fits on the meaning of it all.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition   vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the First Edition   ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1   A Primer of Academic Politics   1\u003cbr\u003e 2   Stereotypics   31\u003cbr\u003e 3   Tribes: \u003ci\u003eLes Purs et les Appliques\u003c\/i\u003e   63\u003cbr\u003e 4   \u003ci\u003eRites de Passage:\u003c\/i\u003e Coming of age in Academe   77\u003cbr\u003e 5   The Rhythm of the Year: Solar Rituals   97\u003cbr\u003e 6   Styles and the Decay of Style   109\u003cbr\u003e 7   Bureaucriticism: What's Wrong and Why It Isn't Likely to Be Fixed   121\u003cbr\u003e 8   \u003ci\u003eConfessio Amantis\u003c\/i\u003e   139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Triptych of Appendixes   145\u003cbr\u003e 1)   A Political Primer for the Chair of English: Form and Content   147\u003cbr\u003e b)   How Departments Commit Suicide   161\u003cbr\u003e c)   Definition and\/as Survival   179\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400460607831,"sku":"9780252060007","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252060007.jpg?v=1730470737","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/academic-tribes-9780252060007","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}