Zbigniew Głowala Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

Zbigniew Głowala
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
Poland
The purpose of the article is to present the campus novel from an angle that would expose the
qualities latent in a genre by pointing to the theme of conflict. The paper has been divided into
three parts, each addressing one kind of conflict which can be distinguished from the generic
pattern (the story about academics in the university setting). The analysed themes are
recurrent in the campus novel – a town and gown row, a teacher-teacher conflict, and a clash
between a teacher and a student. The conflicts are illustrated by works of David Lodge,
Malcolm Bradbury and Kingsley Amis.