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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"academic novel"”.
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Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1984-Present
<p>The “new academic novel” emerged in the 1980s as what had previously been a cloistered, insular genre began to engage much more directly with the social and political import of universities and the people who work in them. I argue that an important strand of this development centres on a group …
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Reconstructing the past in the academic novel : the concept of nostalgia in Thatcher Britain
… of the past and the use of nostalgia in academic novels of the period. After situating the economic status of higher education during the early Thatcher era, and examining the academic novel as a genre, attention shifts to a study of Graham Swift's Waterland , A. S. Byatt's Possession , …
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Power Through Privilege: Surveying Perspectives on the Humanities in Higher Education in the Contemporary American Campus Novel
This thesis seeks to examine the ways in which the contemporary American
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The Death of Lily
This is a novel narrated by eleven characters as well as an omniscient narrator. My primary concern as a writer is to experiment with the reliability of the narrative in an attempt to discover the “real&#x201d; version of the story. The thesis employs several narrative techniques. First, it …