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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Moravian Journal of Literature and Film

ISSN

1803-7720

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Svazek periodika

2015

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6.1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

63-78

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