5/20/2023 0 Comments Moo by jane smiley summary![]() ![]() ![]() Some campus novels have drawn a good bit of attention over the years. Almost always, the conflicts emerging in this mix are vicious, as is often said, because the stakes are so small. More often than not, this life at the college or university is complicated by petty antagonisms and/or romantic entanglements between colleagues, challenges offered by difficult campus characters (who are as likely to be students as professors), and, typically, confusingly shifting campus cultures and climates. In many, maybe most cases, it's a comic, maybe satirical text that follows an alienated protagonist (who has, historically, been white and male) mired in and/or bounced around by any number of campus absurdities: department infighting, institutional rituals, budget agonies, bureaucratic nonsense, and so on. On first glance, it seems easy enough to define the "campus novel" (which is as often called the academic novel). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |