The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University consists of three
interlocking novellas dealing with themes of change and dislocation in contemporary
Texas, focused on the institution of the modern university, an institution that itself is
undergoing rapid and irreversible change.
Crucial to the dissertation is a thorough understanding and demonstrated proficiency
of the genre of the novella. The creative text will illustrate how the novella can be used to
achieve narrative depth and insight into the changing social context of the contemporary
individual; the critical introduction will discuss the history of the genre and its emergence
in recent years as a powerful vehicle for the depiction of change.
The overall subject of the creative text is change, and the ways in which individuals
react to change—changes to the institutions to which they devote their lives, and changes
in the localities and regions they inhabit. The immediate setting for the novellas is the
contemporary university, an institution currently undergoing transformations which will
have implications for all of American society.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8313 |
| Date | 2010 August 1900 |
| Creators | White, Lowell Mick |
| Contributors | Christensen, Paul N. |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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