The American writer and the university / edited by Ben Siegel.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Desire, hypocrisy, and ambition in Academe: Joyce Carol Oate's Hungry ghosts / Stanley Trachtenberg -- Academia and the wasteland: Bernard Malamud's A new life and his views of the university / James M. Mellard -- The gnomes of academe: Philip Roth and the university / Eric Solomon -- John Barth, the university, and the absurd: a study of The end of the road and Giles goat-boy / Elaine Safer -- Joseph Heller and the academy / James Nagel -- Saul Bellow and the university as villain / Ben Siegel -- Making the best of two worlds: Raymond Federman, Beckett, and the university / Melvin J. Friedman -- A personal view: poetry, pedagogy, and per-versities / Theodore Weiss -- A personal view: the academy and the "you know?" generation / James Ragan -- A personal view: the "real life" fallacy / David Madden.