"We Are Trained to Be Cynical": Arthur Koestler's The Call-Girls as a Campus Novel

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46747885%3A24510%2F18%3A00006392" target="_blank" >RIV/46747885:24510/18:00006392 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/140983" target="_blank" >https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/140983</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2018-2-10" target="_blank" >10.5817/BSE2018-2-10</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"We Are Trained to Be Cynical": Arthur Koestler's The Call-Girls as a Campus Novel
Original language description
Arthur Koestler's The Call-Girls (1972) is, at present, mostly ignored, or if discussed, either dismissed wholesale, or approached only in terms of its role in the development of Koestler's political and philosophical thinking. The aim of this analysis is to show that it is possible to interpret the text as a highly specific campus novel, limited to a single setting: an academic conference. Although the conference's topic is "saving the world," the novel's characters neither achieve that aim, nor get any closer to a solution. Therefore, the book can be taken for a satirical treatment of the hypocrisy and futility of academic conferences, rather than a political plea, as previously understood.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures

Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_027%2F0008493" target="_blank" >EF16_027/0008493: International Mobilities of Researchers at the TUL</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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