University or Universal? Revaluating the Academic Novel

• Authors: Zbigniew Głowala
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the article is to present the campus novel from an angle that would expose the qualities latent in a genre by pointing to the theme of conflict. The paper has been divided into three parts, each addressing one kind of conflict which can be distinguished from the generic pattern (the story about academics in the university setting). The analysed themes are recurrent in the campus novel – a town and gown row, a teacher-teacher conflict, and a clash between a teacher and a student. The conflicts are illustrated by works of David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Kingsley Amis.

Keywords

EN

academic novel; Lodge; Bradbury; Amis

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 34
• Pages: 20-34

Contributors

author

Zbigniew Głowala

• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin, Poland

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