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Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (XML)

This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside...

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Main Author: Martin Paul Eve
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Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25966450.v1
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description This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it.
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spelling rr-article-259664502016-10-17T00:00:00Z Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (XML) Martin Paul Eve (8315556) Academia Contemporary fiction Ishmael Reed Jennifer Egan metafiction Percival Everett Roberto Bolaño Sarah Waters Tom McCarthy University English This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it. 2016-10-17T00:00:00Z text Monograph 2134/25966450.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/monograph/Literature_Against_Criticism_University_English_and_Contemporary_Fiction_in_Conflict_XML_/25966450 CC BY 4.0
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metafiction
Percival Everett
Roberto Bolaño
Sarah Waters
Tom McCarthy
University English
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Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (XML)
title Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (XML)
title_full Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (XML)
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title_short Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (XML)
title_sort literature against criticism: university english and contemporary fiction in conflict (xml)
topic Academia
Contemporary fiction
Ishmael Reed
Jennifer Egan
metafiction
Percival Everett
Roberto Bolaño
Sarah Waters
Tom McCarthy
University English
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25966450.v1