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Moo
Moo is a 1995 satirical novel by Jane Smiley set at a large Midwestern agricultural university that closely resembles Iowa State University, where Smiley taught. The novel employs multiple narrators and interwoven storylines to depict the institution's internal politics, bureaucratic absurdities, and relationships between academic departments and agricultural interests. Smiley's satire targets cam...
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Pale Fire
Published in 1962, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire takes the form of a poem by the fictional writer John Shade, surrounded by a foreword and commentary from Charles Kinbote. Kinbote's notes repeatedly pull attention away from the poem toward his own account of events and his claims about the country of Zembla. The academic setting matters, but the novel is not organized around an expedition to a remo...
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