The Civic University, Creative Placemaking and the Discipline of Literature

A Critical Review of Chris Brink. 2018. The Soul of a University: Why Excellence is Not Enough. Bristol: Bristol UP. xix + 385 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5292-0034-8 and Shane Lavalette. 2019. LOST, Syracuse. New York: Kris Graves Projects. 48 pp. No ISBN.

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  • Kevin A. Morrison Henan University

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https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2020-42.2.13

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Kevin A. Morrison, Henan University

Kevin A. Morrison is Chair Professor of British Literature and University Distinguished Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University, China. He is the author, most recently, of Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and editor of the Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (McFarland, 2018).

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2020-12-23

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Morrison, K. A. (2020). The Civic University, Creative Placemaking and the Discipline of Literature: A Critical Review of Chris Brink. 2018. The Soul of a University: Why Excellence is Not Enough. Bristol: Bristol UP. xix + 385 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5292-0034-8 and Shane Lavalette. 2019. LOST, Syracuse. New York: Kris Graves Projects. 48 pp. No ISBN. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 42(2), 252–263. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2020-42.2.13

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