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Fiction set in colleges and universities. David Lodge's satires Changing Places and Nice Work and how a post-World War II shift from pastoral to satiric academic novels reflected ambivalence about upward mobility. The humor of campus politics in Moo, Jane Smiley's 1992 novel about a fictional land-grant university. The Human Stain, Philip Roth's 2000 commentary on challenges to the university as a place to strive for human ideals.
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