ORIGIN AND THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ANGLO-AMERICAN CAMPUS NOVEL

Abstract

The prose of the Anglo-American University became one of the most brilliant literary events of the early XX and XXI centuries. Although the study of its origin and evolution has previously attracted the attention of literary critics, including Russian critics, university prose has become one of the intellectual hits of recent decades.David Lodge, a well-known British novelist and practitioner of the university novel, points out that the campus novel genre arose in the United States in the early 1950s with the publication of Mary Macrthy's “The Groves of Academe” (1952), a controversial response to Raymond Jarrell's “Pictures from an Institution”in 1954. At the same time, V. Nabokov, Russian immigrant was working on a book about  a teacher at the American “Pnin” University (1956).Given the uncertainty of a particular genre in this book (it’s hard to say it’s a seven-chapter novel or a general theme - a collection of stories combined with a home search), we find all the key features of university prose that flourished in our time in the early 20th century.