![]() ![]() Jim Dixon, lecturer in medieval history, endures penury, pretension, publish or perish, and plagiarism before escaping the academy. ![]() Kingsley Amis sends up the world of red-brick universities in this 1954 classic, his prize-winning first novel and the beginning of the modern genre of academic satire. Here is a list of some of our favorite works of academic satire, starting with the best and oldest. ![]() And because satire is nearly as strange as real life, both of us appreciate academic satires in particular. We both appreciate satire and how close to the bone it can truly cut. Together, we have 50 years of experience working in an academic setting. There is just something about institutions of higher learning where the stuff of life can often get in the way of academics and learning. In his 1889 essay “The Decay of Lying,” Oscar Wilde famously noted, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” Life may seem absurd - perhaps at its most so when the setting is a college or university. ![]()
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