Der deutschsprachige Universitätsroman seit 1968 die Verwandlung eines wenig geachteten Genres

The thesis deals with the transformation of the German-language university novel after 1968. The author divides the corpus of 33 novels into four types, according to the way they are written: 1. university criminal novel, 2. university novels that are narrated from the subjective perspective, 3. entertaining and satirical university novels and 4. experimental university novels. The present research has been too narrow and has reduced the German university novel to a couple of writings. Also, due to its limited focus on depicting the association between university and society, the existing research has credited the genre with a low literary level. By contrast, the author of the thesis sees the main measure of the literary quality of the university novel in the mutual escalation of both the selected way of writing and the university topic.