“Cash Is Better than Tenure”: (De)Constructing the “Posthistorical University” in James Hynes’s Gothic Academic Satire The Lecturer’s Tale
This article analyzes the manner in which James Hynes’s novel The Lecturer’s Tale (2001) can be read as a satire of what Bill Readings identified in his influential The University in Ruins (1996) as the “posthistorical university.” I argue that, in the contemporary context in which higher education...
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| Language: | English |
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2016-06-01
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| Series: | American, British and Canadian Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2016-0006 |