| Přispěvatelé: |
Hauthal, Janine, Aerts, Janna, Arteel, Inge, Linguistics and Literary Studies, Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, Study Centre Experimental Literature |
| Popis: |
This chapter interrogates in what ways Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru responds to and subverts the genre of the ‘campus novel’, in particular the British campus novel of post-WII era. As Showalter has noted, women often only appear in the background in these novels, ‘as students, as eccentric dons and dames, and especially as faculty wives’. Thru provides a stark counter-example to this recurring trope in the British mid-twentieth century campus novel and this chapter will pay particular attention to the ways in which the narrative’s experimentation playfully destabilises ideas surrounding gender and/in the academy. |
