Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature

Two widely published humor columnists and bad boys of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. . At last the thinking persons take on the life of the mind in todays increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to pompous professors; from anal-retentive authors to plagiarizing poets; from snake-oil therapists to bestselling illiterati. This singular collection by Professors Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George brings together their most popular pieces along with many brand-new ones including: . • The Academy Awards for novels -- with categories for Best Female Protagonist -- Doomed Best Narrator -- Unreliable and Best Novel -- Unfinishable by Reader • Home Shopping University -- offering the greatest ideas in Western history at rock-bottom prices • Im Okay Im Okay: Accepting Narcissism -- the best in Self-helplessness books • The Penis Orations -- Iron Mans answer to The Vagina Monologues • Ask the Academic Ethicist -- their notorious advice column which has shocked higher education