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I want to say that there is another kind of context that I think you
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could attend to productively, and that is the quality of this
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novel as a campus novel.
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Now, that's probably not exactly what you were thinking of when you
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read this novel.
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It's a campus novel because it was written on a campus,
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and it's also a campus novel because it is in part a coming of age novel
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about someone who goes from needing a lot of help with his writing
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to kind of writing on his own.
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So, what you see is the displacement
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of a narrative that looks very much like Foer's development,
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or you would imagine the development