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oapen-20.500.12657-312402022-04-26T12:19:33Z Literature Against Criticism Eve, Martin Paul university english roberto bolaño ishmael reed contemporary fiction sarah waters metafiction jennifer egan tom mccarthy percival everett academia Literary criticism Postmodernism bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFC Literacy "This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it. " 2017-07-01 23:55:55 2020-03-30 12:19:21 2020-04-01T13:28:22Z 2020-04-01T13:28:22Z 2016 book 633783 OCN: 969643362 9781783742738 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31240 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 633783.pdf http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/530 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0102 10.11647/OBP.0102 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781783742738 ScholarLed 248 open access
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"This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it.
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