The American writer and the university / edited by Ben Siegel. - Newark ; London : University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, 1989. - 195 p. ; 25 cm. - 810/.9/355 .

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.

087413336X (alk paper)


American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
College stories, American--History and criticism.
Universities and colleges in literature.
College teachers in literature.
Education, Higher, in literature.
Authors as teachers.
English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--United States--20th century.
Creative writing (Higher education)--History--United States--20th century.

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