Uni literarisch : Lebenswelt Universität in literarischer Repräsentation

Abstract

Uni literarisch examines the ways in which students and academics are presented in literature and film, focussing on works from Britain, the United States, and Germany, but also analyzing works in Latin, Spanish, and Chinese. In their analyses, the contributors deal with texts and/or text groups of particular importance, while also surveying the respective national traditions in education and literary/cultural criticism. Literary texts have accompanied academic history since its beginning and the presentation of the academic world is correspondingly varied and fascinating, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, from epistolary humanist satire of universities via classical drama to contemporary campus novels and their film adaptions, from stereotypes of professors in ivory towers and love-crazed students to the use of education as a survival technique. [publication in German]