“Structural Dissatisfaction”: Academics on Safari in the Novels of Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan’s acclaimed 2010 novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a text populated by a disproportionately high number of, often unfulfilled, postgraduate researchers: “I’m in the PhD program at Berkeley”, proclaims Mindy; “Joe, who hailed from Kenya [...] was getting his PhD in robotics at Colu...
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Open Library of Humanities
2015-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4404/ |