TY - BOOK AU - Lodge,David TI - The novelist at the crossroads: and other essays on fiction and criticism SN - 0801406749 AV - PR883 .L6 U1 - 823/.03 PY - 1971///] CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press KW - English fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Local KW - American fiction N1 - 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 ER -