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Polish Journal of English Studies POLISH JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES Journal of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE) No. 5.2 Guest Editors Prof. Merritt Moseley . Prof. Bozena Kucała Polish Association for the Study of English Warsaw 2019 Publisher: Polish Association for the Study of English ul. Hoża 69, 00-681 Warszawa Printrun 200 copies Editorial Board: Editors-in-Chief: Prof. Jacek Fabiszak, Prof. Krzysztof Fordoński Heads of Thematic Sections: Prof. Danuta Gabryś-Barker (Applied Linguistics), Prof. Henryk Kardela (Linguistics), Prof. Ryszard Wolny (Studies in Culture), Prof. Jacek Fabiszak (Studies in Literature), Prof. Jadwiga Uchman (Studies in Literature) Managing Editor: Dr Anna Wołosz-Sosnowska Language Editors: Prof. Merritt Moseley, Prof. Bożena Kucała Technical Editors: Dr Weronika Szemińska, Dr Łukasz Karpiński Typesetting: Dr Marcin Klag Advisory Board: Prof. J. Lawrence Guntner (Technische Universität Braunschweig) Prof. Nicoleta Cinpoes (University of Worcester) Prof. Jan Jędrzejewski (University of Ulster) Prof. Adriana Biedroń (Pomeranian University, Słupsk) Prof. Cem Cam (Cykrova University) Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London) Prof. Hossein Nassaji (University of Victoria) Prof. Sarah Mercer (University of Graz) Prof. Terence Odlin (Ohio State University) Prof. Rebecca Oxford (University of Maryland) Prof. David Singleton (University of Pannonia) Prof. Jorge Bastos da Silva (University of Porto) Prof. Séllei Nóra (Debrecen University) Prof. Irene Gilsenan Nordin (Dalarna University) Prof. Bożena Rozwadowska (University of Wrocław) Reviewers: Prof. Mihaela Avram, Prof. Ryszard Bartnik, Prof. Katarzyna Bazarnik, Prof. Dagmara Drewniak, Prof. Leszek Drong, Prof. Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim, Prof. Michał Lachman, Prof. Barbara Klonowska, Prof. Ewa Kujawska-Lis, Prof. Zbigniew Maszewski, Prof. Beata Piątek, Prof. Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel, Prof. Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Prof. Paweł Stachura, Prof. Jadwiga Uchman, Prof. Andrzej Wicher, Dr Anna Bendrat, Dr Christine Berberich, Dr Anca-Luminiţa Iancu, Dr Sławomir Kozioł, Dr Dagmara Krzyżaniak, Dr Wojciech Drąg, Dr Anna Kwiatkowska, Dr Anna Rogos-Hebda, Dr Ana-Karina Schneider, Dr Mateusz Świetlicki Cover Design: Dr Łukasz Karpiński © Copyright by Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE) CONTENTS From the Editors 5 Research Scholars and Rebel Angels: Faustian Drama and the Modern University in Novels by C.S. Lewis, Simon Raven and Robertson Davies 9 Rowland Cotterill, Independent scholar J. I. M. Stewart’s The Aylwins: The Collegiate Story Exemplified 25 Zbigniew Głowala, Jagiellonian University in Kraków; Podhale State College of Applied Sciences in Nowy Targ The Academic as Comedian: Humour in Michael Frayn’s The Trick of It 38 Isabel Berzal Ayuso, University of Alcalá Another Look at Joyceans: Evelyn Conlon’s Rewrite of “Two Gallants” 49 Izabela Curyłło-Klag, Jagiellonian University in Kraków The Two Cultures and Other Dualisms in David Lodge’s Thinks… 58 Bożena Kucała, Jagiellonian University in Kraków “Engineering the New Male” in James Lasdun’s pre-#MeToo Academic Novel The Horned Man 70 Ewa Kowal, Jagiellonian University in Kraków The Romanian Academic Novel and Film through the Postcommunism/ Postcolonialism Lens 87 Corina Selejan, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu Anger, Fear, Depression, and Passion: Approaches to Teaching in Selected Academic Novels 103 Michał Palmowski, Jagiellonian University in Kraków Review: Scott Johnson, Campusland 121 Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina Authors’ Biodata 125 From the Editors The academic novel (or university, college, or campus novel) is of course a sub- genre. It may be statistically unimposing if compared to, say, the mystery or science fiction or romance varieties (though all these are represented in academic fiction). There may be critics who dismiss its interest or complain of its narrow appeal, critics who are themselves usually university-based academics. And yet the academic novel not only continues: it flourishes. Novelists write them and readers, most of whom are not professors, read them. Moreover, it is a subgenre that has appealed to many major literary novelists, including such authors as Vladimir Nabokov, Javier Marias, Zadie Smith, Philip Roth, A. S. Byatt, Bernard Malamud, and Nobel laureates Saul Bellow and J. M. Coetzee. A majority of the best-known academic novels have been from the Anglo-American world but this is changing as new examples spring up outside the Anglosphere. Explanations for the attractions of the form are many and range from the usefulness of the academic milieu and the prescribed academic term as closed systems to the supposed fun of seeing intellectuals made to look petty or venal, cowardly or lustful. That a university is a setting for thinking and the attain- ment of wisdom, among other activities, invites writers and readers who want a cerebral quality in their fiction. And the university seems to lend itself to comedy and satire. In November of 2019, one in a series of seminars on the academic novel orga nized on the Continent (earlier seminars or dedicated portions of seminars on academic fiction had been held in Ghent, Bucharest, Vienna, Gdansk, Kyiv, and Lublin) took place at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Alongside scholars from several Polish universities there were representatives from the United States, Britain, Romania, Spain, and even India for two days of presentations. The series we present here brings together a selection of articles most of which are based on the presentations in Kraków. In “Research Scholars and Rebel Angels” Rowland Cotterill discusses three novelistic portrayals of the university, C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength (1945), Simon Raven’s Places Where They Sing (1970) and Robertson Davies’s The Rebel Angels (1981) as academic “theodramas” revolving around a battle between forces of good and evil. Acknowledging the supernatural framework of the selected novels and consistently referring to the myth of Faust (especially in Goethe’s and Marlowe’s works), the author treats the novels by Lewis, Raven and Davies as twentieth-century manifestations of some of the conflicts and dilemmas attendant on human ambition and the desire for knowledge. Zbigniew Głowala discusses the representation of the private and profes- sional lives of Oxford dons in J.I.M. Stewart’s The Aylwins (1966). The novel is treated as an illustration of the genre of “collegiate story”, as the narrator him- self describes it. Starting with the premise that The Aylwins is based on a number of stereotypes about academic life, the author refers to The Academic Tribes (1976) by Hazard Adams in order to demonstrate that most of the observations Adams makes in his book are confirmed in Stewart’s fictional story. Another satirical take on the life of scholars may be found in Michael Frayn’s The Trick of It (1973). Through its academic protagonist’s failures and frustrations, the novel mocks the secondary, derivative nature of scholarship as opposed to creative work. In her analysis of Frayn’s story, Isabel Berzal Ayuso employs Simon Critchley’s typology of humour (2002). It is argued that irrespective of its multi-layered comic aspect, The Trick of It conveys a positive image of academia. Izabela Curyłło-Klag analyses Evelyn Conlon’s short story “Two Gallants” from Dubliners 100, a volume of contemporary re-writes of Joyce’s stories, issued to mark the centenary of the original publication. Conlon both openly alludes to Joyce’s story of the same title, and targets the critical industry that Joyce’s work has amassed over the past century. The motif of two men swindling a servant girl is reworked into a story of belated feminist scholarly revenge. The female protago- nist, who turns out to be descended from the woman who supposedly served as a model for the Joycean character, offers a new version of the real-life story as well as exposes unfair and predatory academic practices of her male colleagues. David Lodge’s Thinks… (2001) dramatises the well-known opposition be- tween “the two cultures” as a professional and private relationship between a writer and scientist, in a campus setting. Informed by Bakhtin’s views on nov- elistic dialogism, Lodge’s novel sets up several binaries without resolving them conclusively. The chief dualism addressed in the novel stems from different approaches to human consciousness. Bożena Kucała’s article provides a detailed analysis of how this and related kinds of dualism are represented in the novel. Ewa Kowal analyses James Lusdun’s representation of academia in his 2002 novel The Horned Man. The book tells the story of a British scholar working at an American college and, in the course of his work, confronting issues of gender relations and sexual harassment in what may be identified, in hind- sight, as a pre-#MeTwo movement era. Despite the fact that Lusdun’s novel gradually departs from the realist mode, the article highlights its topicality and perceptive engagement with some of the most controversial and thorny problems in contemporary academic life. Carefully tracing the trajectories of the increasingly confusing and unreliable narration, Ewa Kowal also offers a detailed interpretation of the novel’s numerous intertextual allusions and cultural references Corina Selejan’s article addresses a spectrum of fictional representations of academe in contemporary Romanian novels. The author outlines the cultural and political context of Romanian academic fiction, pointing out that this is a rel- atively new phenomenon since
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