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. |
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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. |