The novelist at the crossroads and other essays on fiction and criticism.
Detalles de publicación: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [1971]Descripción: xi, 297 p. 23 cmISBN:- 0801406749
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Includes bibliographical references.
The novelist at the crossroads.--Waiting for the end: current novel criticism.--Towards a poetics of fiction: an approach through language.--Choice and chance in literary composition: a self-analysis.--Graham Greene.--The uses and abuses of omniscience: method and meaning in Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.--The Chesterbelloc and the Jews.--Objections to William Burroughs.--Samuel Beckett: some ping understood.--Hemingway's clean, well-lighted, puzzling place.--Assessing H. G. Wells.--Utopia and criticism: the radical longing for Paradise.--Post-pill Paradise Lost: John Updike's Couples.--Crosscurrents in Modern English criticism.
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Writing both literary criticism and novels, British author David Lodge has learned to practice what he teaches. A professor of Modern English literature, both his fiction and nonfiction have found a large readership in the United Kingdom and the United States. To maintain his dual approach to writing, Lodge has attempted to alternate a novel one year and a literary criticism the next throughout his career.Lodge's fiction has been described as good writing with a good laugh, and he is praised for his ability to treat serious subjects sardonically. This comic touch is evident in his first novel, "The Picturegoers" (1960) in which the conflict of Catholicism with sensual desire, a recurrent theme, is handled with wit and intelligence. "How Far Can You Go" (1980) released in United States as "Souls and Bodies" (1982) also examines sexual and religious evolution in a marvelously funny way. "Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses" (1975, 1979), based on Lodge's experience in Berkeley as a visiting professor, won the Hawthorne Prize and the Yorkshire Post fiction prize and solidified his reputation in America. Some of the author's other hilarious novels include "Nice Work" (1989), which Lodge adapted into an award-winning television series, and "Therapy" (1995), a sardonic look at mid-life crisis.
Lodge's nonfiction includes a body of work begun in 1966 with "The Language of Fiction" and includes "The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts" (1992) and "The Practice of Writing: Essays, Lectures, Reviews and a Diary"(1996). In a unique approach, he often uses his own works for critical examination and tries to give prospective writers insights into the complex creative process.
David John Lodge was born in London on January 28, 1935. He has a B.A. (1955) and M.A (1959) from University College, London and a Ph.D. (1967) and an Honorary Professorship (1987) from the University of Birmingham. Lodge is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
(Bowker Author Biography)