The Campus Novel : : Regional or Global? / / edited by Dieter Fuchs, Wojciech Klepuszewski.

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-es...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 199.
Physical Description:1 online resource (214 pages).
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Other title: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.
Summary: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004392319
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Dieter Fuchs, Wojciech Klepuszewski.