{"product_id":"9781440129049","title":"Dance Class: American High School Students Encounter Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time","description":"\u003ci\u003eDance Class\u003c\/i\u003e offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powell’s great comic novel \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. The young authors not only discuss issues of character, plot, and theme, but they also investigate historical background, chart personal relevance, parody characters and situations, even – in one student’s case – write a treatment for a drama.\u003cp\u003e  In examining Mrs. Erdleigh’s fortune-telling mumbo-jumbo, Cassidy Carpenter presents compelling – and original – evidence that the narrator’s birthday is the same as Powell’s. Will Story provides an invaluable guide to all the military acronyms that percolate through the war novels. Alex Svec creates a brilliant parody of writings by Julian Maclaren-Ross, the real-life model for X. Trapnel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  For those who love \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, this book will reveal fresh new ways of looking at the series. And for those who are just discovering it, \u003ci\u003eDance Class\u003c\/i\u003e will prove a useful and highly entertaining guide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123547226352,"sku":"9781440129049","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440129049_p0.jpg?v=1763757981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440129049","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}