“Brexit from the Campus”: Jonathan Coe’s Middle England
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2022-0008" target="_blank" >10.2478/ewcp-2022-0008</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“Brexit from the Campus”: Jonathan Coe’s Middle England
Original language description
The title of my article bears a double meaning. On the one hand, itrefers to a group of Conservative politicians around Boris Johnsonwho studied at Oxford University in the eighties and who areidentified in Jonathan Coe’s novel as the engineers behind theBrexit; on the other hand, Coe’s novel portrays a fictional group ofscholars who are more or less frustrated and dissatisfied with theuniversity for various reasons and turn their backs on academia tofind their luck elsewhere. In the first case, Oxford colleges such asBalliol where people are nostalgically hankering after England’sglorious past and dream of regaining England’s former glory, play arole as seedbed of Brexit; in the second case, we are dealing with amore private ‘exit’ of a group of talented academicians who nolonger believe in the university as a place of self-realization. Whilenostalgia is a driving force of the first group, the second has a cleareyed view of the growing hostility of their environment.Historically speaking, the existence of nostalgia here and the lackof nostalgia there are two sides of the same medal: they point to theheritage of the Thatcher era and the deep-reaching ‘reformation’ ofBritish society whose effects can still be felt today. They also pointto loss: the loss of social consensus in the first case, and the loss ofwhat the university and a university career once stood for.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East-West Cultural Passage
ISSN
1583-6401
e-ISSN
2067-5712
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
RO - ROMANIA
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
154-174
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