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The Campus Novel : Regional or Global? /

The Campus Novel : Regional or Global? / edited by Dieter Fuchs, Wojciech Klepuszewski. - 1 online resource. - Internationale forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden literaturwissenschaft ; volume 199 Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386334 . - Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 199. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386334. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / The Anglo-American Tradition: The Utopian Heritage of Social Welfare and the Rise of the (Neo-)Liberal Market -- Academia Utopiana: Universities and Research Institutions in Early Modern Utopian Fictions / Smaller World: The Academic Novel as Canary in the Coal Mine of Modern Higher Education / Academia and the “Outside” World in David Lodge’s Nice Work / Eastern and Central Europe: Auto- and Hetero-Stereotypes -- Academic Fiction and the Professorial Shadowlands: The (Dis)empowerment of the Eastern European Scholar / Zamek – Jerzy Kaczorowski’s Conference Topography / Academic Poles Apart: Inauguracja and Lucky Jim / From German to Austrian Academic Fiction: Regionalism Exponentiated / The usa, Canada, and South Africa: Gender and Ethnicity -- Victimization in Academic Mystery Fiction / “How Far Can You Go?” The Contemporary South African University Novel in Black on White / Global Perspectives: The Centre and/or the Periphery? -- The World, the University, and the Self: Personal Topographies in André Aciman’s Harvard Square / C.K. Stead’s ‘Campus’ Novel Talking about O’Dwyer: Oxford, New Zealand, Croatia, Greece / “How to Save Difference”: Contemporary Romanian, German, English and American Academic Novels / Menippean Satire and Academic Romance in David Lodge’s Small World / Back Matter -- Index. Dieter Fuchs and Wojciech Klepuszewski -- Artur Blaim -- Merritt Moseley -- Ruxandra Diaconu -- Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim -- Wojciech Klepuszewski -- Wojciech Klepuszewski -- Rudolf Weiss -- Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik -- Ewald Mengel -- Marta Lysik -- Igor Maver -- Corina Selejan -- Dieter Fuchs --

The Campus Novel – Regional or Global? presents innovative scholarship in the field of academic fiction. Whereas the campus novel is traditionally considered a product of the Anglo-American world, the present study opens a new perspective: it elucidates the intercultural exchange between the well-established Western canon of British and American academic fiction and its more recent regional response outside the Anglo-American territory.

9789004392311

10.1163/9789004392311 DOI


College stories--History and criticism.
Universities and colleges in literature.
Education, Higher, in literature.
Literature and society.

PN3448.C6 / C36 2019

809.933557