A distinctive new approach to the campus novel Unlikely as it may seem this brief book offers the most exciting representation of a Registrar since Lucky Jim. Set in a real university (York) but with fictional (we hope) characters there is plenty to enjoy here: The present and past lives of James Kerr, university senior manager … Continue reading From 007 to Registrar
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Still waiting for a decent new campus novel?
Fertile territory for Higher Ed fiction? Previous posts on Higher Ed fiction have looked at the end of the campus novel and some flickers in the embers with a few more recent offerings including the Marriage Plot. More recently I also posted on satire in HE which covered, among other things, an unpromising series of British … Continue reading Still waiting for a decent new campus novel?
Still the End of the Campus Novel?
Why aren't there any good campus novels these days? Inspired by an article in the Guardian by David Lodge about Pnin by Nabokov I wrote a brief piece some five years ago on "The End of the Campus Novel?". With the possible exception of Zadie Smith's On Beauty, have there been any decent campus novels … Continue reading Still the End of the Campus Novel?
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