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Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell. It is an academic satire , focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives.
- Randall Jarrell
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Pictures from an Institution. Randall Jarrell. 3.48. 475 ratings84 reviews. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits.
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20 nov 2019 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 277 pages ; 21 cm. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits.
7 mar 2019 · Pictures from an Institution is set at “Benton,” a prosperous and progressive women’s college that embodies both smug American educational triumphalism (“home of the open mind”) and postwar complacency.
Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy. ©1954, 296 pages. Paper $16.00 ISBN: 9780226393759. For information on purchasing the book—from bookstores or here online—please go to the webpage for Pictures from an Institution.
Not only ‘a unique and serious joke-book,’ as Lowell called it, but also a meditation made up of epigrams.”—Michael Wood. Read an excerpt. The book Pictures from an Institution, Randall Jarrell is published by University of Chicago Press.
Complete summary of Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Pictures from an Institution.
