SOURCE: Mellard, James M. “Academia and the Wasteland: Bernard Malamud's A New Life and His Views of the University.” In The American Writer and the University, edited by Ben Siegel, pp. 54-67. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1989.
In the following essay, Mellard argues that A New Life is both an academic novel and a pastoral.
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