Private fantasies and public intellectuals : the campus novel and its various publics
This thesis argues that the public dimension of campus novels has been hitherto, an overlooked component in understanding the genre’s reception and literary function. Reading John Williams’ Stoner and Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members with an eye towards the novels’ engagement with public...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90063 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49369 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This thesis argues that the public dimension of campus novels has been hitherto, an
overlooked component in understanding the genre’s reception and literary function. Reading
John Williams’ Stoner and Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members with an eye
towards the novels’ engagement with publics uncovers deep historical continuities with texts
and media starting from the turn of the twentieth century. By tracing these historical
continuities, we come to a greater understanding of how campus novels function as texts within
reading communities and strategies for the uses of texts as resistance to the
commercialization of higher education. |
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