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Fikční světy české postmoderní prózy

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Fořt B.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

2016

vol. 53

issue 26

13-18

The study primarily deals with Lubomír Doležel‘s latest book, Heterocosmica II: Fictional Worlds of Postmodern Czech Prose — its main aim is not only to analyse and describe Doležel‘s newest contribution to the investigation of the theory of postmodern literature but also to compare the methodological preconditions of his approach to this type of literature with other crucial approaches. Therefore, the crucial theses of his system of postmodern literature are critically compared with those of the approaches of Linda Hutcheon, Brian McHale, and David Lodge.

Whither Teaching in the University Novel?

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Switaj E. K.

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal

2016

vol. 26

issue 1

15-35

Scenes of explicit teaching make only limited appearances in the university novel since World War II. While it would be easy – if cynical – to attribute this minimization to the devaluation of teaching in the modern university, the importance of teaching and learning to sympathetic characters (and their lack of importance to corrupted figures) suggests that this lack of focus on the classroom stems from something else. Indeed, university novels tend to be fairly conservative aesthetically, and the demands of traditional narrative make extended classroom scenes difficult if not impossible to manage. Because of these narrative demands, learning and teaching take on different forms in the university novel, creating stories in which education corresponds to the struggle of teachers and students with and against administrators and buildings – stories that, therefore, resemble Leo van Lier’s observation about how remembering our own educations as stories contradicts more bureaucratic visions of learning. This observation holds true whether one considers better-known works of university fiction such as David Lodge’s Campus Trilogy, Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe, and Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members or lesser-known works produced by micro-presses and writers who are enabled by current technologies to publish electronically.

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Fikční světy české postmoderní prózy

Whither Teaching in the University Novel?