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Jane Fairfax is a professor of English at a small college in Kansas, whose department is thrown into turmoil when the chairmanship is usurped by deranged postmodernist Virginia Borensen. Deep in the confidence of the Vice President of Academic Affairs, Borensen promises to aid him in his nefarious plan to…
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1 author picked The Sleep of Reason as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As the saying goes; “Write what you know” and E.M. Dadlez, a professor of philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma, certainly puts the saying front and center!
Dadlez takes the reader on a tour of the absurdities of higher education and sprinkles the ride with a corrupt provost and an English department rebellion. Dadlez replaced philosophy with English, Oklahoma with Kansas, and there is no doubt that she is Jane Fairfax and at some time in her career, she has crossed paths with a “Virginia Borensen” type.
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