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The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It
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2015
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Academic Writing as if Readers Matter
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2024
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The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
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2008
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The Cambridge Companion to Baseball
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2011
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The Inhuman Race
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1996
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The Cambridge History of the American Novel
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2011
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Surviving Your Graduate School Advisor
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2012
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Oliver Sacks and the Medical Case Narrative
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The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser
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2004
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“But at the same time, Dreiser points in An American Tragedy to the significance of those very social connections in the creation of Clyde’s criminal motivation. In asking how Clyde Griffiths the murderer was formed, Dreiser takes a panoramic view of economic development and social change in the United States during the decades leading up to the 1920s. In particular, he views Clyde as the product of a certain kind of family during a certain historical period. Though the story of Clyde draws on accounts of an actual 1906 murder, Dreiser deliberately avoids exactly dating the story, and the book thus comments not on a specific moment, but on an American era.
The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (p. 198). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.”
― The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser
The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (p. 198). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.”
― The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser
“The notion that graduate school is a specialized training ground for future professors has been untenable for more than two generations, but the antiquated structure of graduate education marks our collective longing for a brief postwar golden age when a job as a professor was waiting for anyone with a doctorate. This”
― The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It
― The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It
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