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The Politics of Higher Education and American Academic Fiction 1950-1980

This study offers the hypothesis that the academic novels as literary artifacts of their time are a part of interplay of discourses in higher education which they both shape and are shaped by. The aim of this study is to relocate the discourses of the academic novels among the other nonliterary discursive practices of the particular decade the work was written, in order to, as Greenblatt says, “recover as far as possible the historical circumstances of their original production and consumption and to analyze the relationship between these circumstances and our own” (1990: 228-229). This study intends to discover what literary authors and academics can learn from each other and to what extent the university shapes the novels and the novels shape the university.

academic novel ; new historicism ; cultural artifact ; literary ; non-literary

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