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Volume : V, Issue : IX, October - 2015

CAMPUS NOVELS PRESENT CIVILIZED ENTERTAINMENT RATHER THAN CATHARSIS TO THE READERS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CAMPUS NOVELS OF DAVID LODGE (SMALL WORLD) AND KARAN BAJAJ (KEEP OFF THE GRASS)

V. Kalpana, Bala Agarwal

By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Academic Infightings, Couplings touching, funny and frightful, set pieces, dark humor, sharp wit and plain farce---here is everything one expects from this author…..” The Sunday Telegraph writes this review for Small World by David Lodge. This review is applicableto almost all the campus novels written globally. This paper attempts to analyze how these campus novels guide the readers through the maze of the small world within the world and zoom in the follies and foibles present there with the telescope called humor and stop at that and leave the rest to the readers.catharsis is left to the own call of the individual readers. This paper purports to analyze the aforesaid proposition through David Lodge’s Small World and Karan Bajai’s Keep off the Grass.

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    V. Kalpana, Bala Agarwal(2015). CAMPUS NOVELS PRESENT CIVILIZED ENTERTAINMENT RATHER THAN CATHARSIS TO THE READERS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CAMPUS NOVELS OF DAVID LODGE (SMALL WORLD) AND KARAN BAJAJ (KEEP OFF THE GRASS). Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. V, Issue. IX, http://isrj.org/UploadedData/7358.pdf

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