Levels of Incompetence: An Academic Life (Lamar University Press) follows the training and career of an English professor from the mid-1950s to and beyond retirement in 2000. Although the book is based on personal experience, that experience is placed in social, economic, and cultural contexts to provide a broader view of the profession and some explanation of the apparently irrevocable changes it has undergone.
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