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Campus Fictions: Exemption and the American Campus Novel (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
3031499107 rar Campus Fictions argues that the academic novel balances utopian and regressive tendencies, reinforcing the crises we face in higher learning while simultaneously signposting hope for a worn institution. Whether a bestseller such as Erich Segal s romance Love Story (1970) or wonkier fare such as Don DeLillos White Noise (1985), the academic novel mystifies the academy not only to a wide public but alsoworseto readers who might describe themselves as sympathetic to higher learning. The book takes an eclectic approach to the academic novel with chapters discussing, for example, the genres rampant anti-intellectualism and its work refusals, studying novels such as Ishmael Reeds Japanese by Spring (1993) and Julie Schumachers Dear Committee Members