“Brexit from the Campus”: Jonathan Coe’s Middle England

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“Brexit from the Campus”: Jonathan Coe’s Middle England

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“Brexit from the Campus”: Jonathan Coe’s Middle England

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

East-West Cultural Passage

ISSN

1583-6401

e-ISSN

2067-5712

Svazek periodika

22

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

RO - Rumunsko

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

154-174

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