Beyond the Ivory Tower: Confronting the World Outside Academia in Don DeLillo's White Noise and David Lodge's Nice Work

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Confronting the World Outside Academia in Don DeLillo's White Noise and David Lodge's Nice Work

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Two campus novels written in the same decade, Don DeLillo's White Noise (1985) and David Lodge's Nice Work (1988), both feature protagonists who temporarily leave isolated academia to confront the larger world outside. In White Noise, Jack Gladney, an American professor of Hitler Studies at a fictional midwestern college, finds himself unprepared to deal with an ecological catastrophe as well as the threat of death. In Nice Work, Robyn Penrose, a temporary lecturer in English literature and women's studies at Lodge's fictionalized version of the University of Birmingham, confronts the inconsistencies in her thinking after meeting Vic Wilcox, the manager of an engineering firm. Both academics are satirized for their limited viewpoints and portrayed as benefitting from their experience through the realization that their academic careers have alienated them from the real world.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Confronting the World Outside Academia in Don DeLillo's White Noise and David Lodge's Nice Work

Popis výsledku anglicky

Two campus novels written in the same decade, Don DeLillo's White Noise (1985) and David Lodge's Nice Work (1988), both feature protagonists who temporarily leave isolated academia to confront the larger world outside. In White Noise, Jack Gladney, an American professor of Hitler Studies at a fictional midwestern college, finds himself unprepared to deal with an ecological catastrophe as well as the threat of death. In Nice Work, Robyn Penrose, a temporary lecturer in English literature and women's studies at Lodge's fictionalized version of the University of Birmingham, confronts the inconsistencies in her thinking after meeting Vic Wilcox, the manager of an engineering firm. Both academics are satirized for their limited viewpoints and portrayed as benefitting from their experience through the realization that their academic careers have alienated them from the real world.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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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 statě ve sborníku

From Theory to Practice 2014: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Anglophone Studies

ISBN

978-80-7454-538-2

ISSN

1805-9899

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

227-236

Název nakladatele

Univerzita Tomáše Bati

Místo vydání

Zlín

Místo konání akce

Zlín

Datum konání akce

4. 9. 2014

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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