Date of Award
Summer 8-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
English
Department
English
Major Professor
Daniel Doll, PhD
Second Advisor
Carl D. Malmgren, PhD
Third Advisor
Peter A. Schock, PhD
Abstract
In the tradition of academic satire, Lady Lazarus is the fictional biography of the daughter of American rock musicians. In her late teens she rises to fame as confessional poet, who, despite only publishing one collection of poems during her brief life, becomes an overnight sensation. Author Andrew Altschul is satirizing academia’s need to be a part of popular culture and in doing so, privileges the ability to use controversy and conventional beauty to sell books as opposed to creating quality art. By focusing on how the author uses Hans Robert Jauss’ horizons of expectations, unreliable narrators, anecdotes in biography and the economics of fame as a deciding factor in academia, the author has created a dense and punitive opinion of academia’s inclusion of popular culture into its world.
Recommended Citation
Perry, Amber R., "Critiquing Academic Culture with Satire through Lady Lazarus, A Fictional Biography" (2013). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1700.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1700
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