The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors
Platizky, Roger, Academe
The Student Body: Short Stories About College Students and Professors
John McNally, ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001
ROGER PLATIZKY
The Student Body is comprised of seventeen campus short stories written mostly in the past ten years by well-known authors and several talented graduate students. In his introduction to the collection, John McNally notes his intention: to introduce readers to what he calls "the offspring-or perhaps, the lesser-known cousin"-to the campus novel. Though widely varied in narrative point of view and degree of verisimilitude, most of these stories do have a "family resemblance" that will be recognized, embraced, or …
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Publication information:
Article title: The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors.
Contributors: Platizky, Roger - Author.
Magazine title: Academe.
Volume: 88.
Issue: 3
Publication date: May/June 2002.
Page number: 72+.
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