{"id":10015,"date":"2015-09-21T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:01:21","slug":"et-in-academia-ego-i-review-bradstreet-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/09\/et-in-academia-ego-i-review-bradstreet-gate.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Et in Academia, Ego&#8221;: I review &#8220;Bradstreet Gate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for the University Bookman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Death and defeat haunt the college novel. College novels\u2014whether they focus on students or professors\u2014typically tell a story in which the shining promises of academia prove not only false but absurd. College promises insight; college novels display the blankness of human depravity. College proclaims the power of reason and dialogue; college novels expose irrational passions and farcical miscommunication. College exalts the life of the mind, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicity.com\/commentary\/tushnet\/08535.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the college novel is the province of sex and death<\/a>, the two most common means by which our bodies humiliate us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0804139318\/?tag=ruskircen-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Bradstreet Gate<\/em><\/a>, Robin Kirman\u2019s new entry into the \u201cDeath Wore a Cap and Gown\u201d genre, spins a sordid tale of sex and murder. Repressed, obnoxious, conservative professor Rufus Storrow may or may not have killed his left-wing student Julie Patel. He definitely did have an affair with a student, Georgia Calvin. The book alternates perspectives among three students\u2014Georgia, her troubled friend Alice Kovac, and her friendzoned spaniel Charlie Flournoy\u2014leaving Patel and Storrow mostly opaque.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting parts of the book come when Kirman is adding to the list of our bodily humiliations\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkcenter.org\/index.php\/bookman\/article\/et-in-academia-ego\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a>\u2013I don\u2019t love this review but it does have the phrase \u201clikability privilege\u201d in it\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for the University Bookman: Death and defeat haunt the college novel. 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