Transatlantic Voyages and Quests to the West in the Anglo-American Campus Novel of the 1960s: Malcolm Bradbury’s Stepping Westward and Bernard Malamud’s A New Life

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angličtina

Original language name

Transatlantic Voyages and Quests to the West in the Anglo-American Campus Novel of the 1960s: Malcolm Bradbury’s Stepping Westward and Bernard Malamud’s A New Life

Original language description

The modern campus novel, sometimes also referred to as the academic novel, emerged after World War II as a comic and satirical genre that focuses on professors rather than students and highlights the flaws of the rapidly expanding academia. The article focuses on two campus novels of the 1960s, Bernard Malamud’s A New Life (1961) and Malcolm Bradbury’s Stepping Westward (1965), both of which feature a young instructor’s quest into the unknown territory of a distant university. In Stepping Westward, the protagonist is James Walker, a British writer who accepts a one-year teaching post at an American university; in A New Life, the main character is Sy Levin, who moves from the East to the West of the United States to teach freshman composition at a small agricultural college. While both of the novels satirize provincial American universities for their utilitarian attitude to higher education, Bradbury’s text extends its satire to his protagonist, who is mocked for his lack of independent thinking and assertive behavior. The two texts also illustrate the differences between the light-hearted British campus novel and its potentially darker American counterpart. Whereas Stepping Westward portrays the protagonist’s stay at the university as a temporary escape from his marital and familial duties, A New Life presents a more complex story, of Sy’s struggle for a new life, which he eventually achieves, even though in completely different terms than he might have expected.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Moravian Journal of Literature and Film

ISSN

1803-7720

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Volume of the periodical

2015

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6.1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

63-78

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