TY - BOOK ID - 15992397 TI - Literature against criticism : university English and contemporary fiction in conflict PY - 2016 SN - 1783742755 1783742747 2821884052 1783742739 9781783742752 9781783742738 9781783742745 9781783742738 1783742763 9781783742776 1783742771 9781783742769 9782821884052 PB - Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - Fiction KW - Criticism KW - Popular literature KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Authorship. KW - History and criticism. KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary style KW - Fiction writing KW - Writing, Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - university english KW - roberto bolaño KW - ishmael reed KW - contemporary fiction KW - sarah waters KW - metafiction KW - jennifer egan KW - tom mccarthy KW - percival everett KW - academia KW - Literary criticism KW - Postmodernism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15992397 AB - "This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the 'campus novel' of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve's engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it."--Publisher's website. ER -