Private fantasies and public intellectuals : the campus novel and its various publics
This thesis argues that the public dimension of campus novels has been hitherto, an overlooked component in understanding the genre’s reception and literary function. Reading John Williams’ Stoner and Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members with an eye towards the novels’ engagement with public...
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| author | Tang, Aaron Wei Yao |
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| description | This thesis argues that the public dimension of campus novels has been hitherto, an
overlooked component in understanding the genre’s reception and literary function. Reading
John Williams’ Stoner and Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members with an eye
towards the novels’ engagement with publics uncovers deep historical continuities with texts
and media starting from the turn of the twentieth century. By tracing these historical
continuities, we come to a greater understanding of how campus novels function as texts within
reading communities and strategies for the uses of texts as resistance to the
commercialization of higher education. |
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| institution | Nanyang Technological University |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/900632020-10-15T06:33:35Z Private fantasies and public intellectuals : the campus novel and its various publics Tang, Aaron Wei Yao Christopher Peter Trigg School of Humanities Humanities::Literature This thesis argues that the public dimension of campus novels has been hitherto, an overlooked component in understanding the genre’s reception and literary function. Reading John Williams’ Stoner and Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members with an eye towards the novels’ engagement with publics uncovers deep historical continuities with texts and media starting from the turn of the twentieth century. By tracing these historical continuities, we come to a greater understanding of how campus novels function as texts within reading communities and strategies for the uses of texts as resistance to the commercialization of higher education. Master of Arts 2019-07-16T05:55:08Z 2019-12-06T17:39:51Z 2019-07-16T05:55:08Z 2019-12-06T17:39:51Z 2019 Thesis Tang, A. W. Y. (2019). Private fantasies and public intellectuals : the campus novel and its various publics. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90063 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49369 10.32657/10220/49369 en 108 p. application/pdf |
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| title_short | Private fantasies and public intellectuals : the campus novel and its various publics |
| title_sort | private fantasies and public intellectuals the campus novel and its various publics |
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