English Department, St.FX University
This course will investigate selected campus novels from Britain, the United States, and Canada. Areas of focus include the novels’ textual strategies, their various affiliations with satire, comedy, tragedy, and popular forms (the detective plot, ‘chick lit’, for example), their hybridity, and their discursive potency with respect to constructions of power, class, gender, and race. The course will also consider ways in which the ‘campus novel’ or ‘academic novel’ has been conceptualized by scholars such as Elaine Showalter, Adam Begley, Ian Carter, and Janice Rossen, and how ‘the academy’ as a site of signification resonates more broadly with cultural discourses around social institutions and the production of knowledge.
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