When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort ...
Lodge uses the quest from medieval romance literature to tell the tale of Persse McGarrigle and his pursuit of the beautiful Angelica, as well as the quests of professors, critics and academic hangers-on for their various brass rings. Set in literary conferences held at universities, SMALL WORLD finds Persse flying all over the world after ...
Morris Zapp, an American professor at the State University of Euphoria (based on Berkeley), is on a university exchange program with Philip Swallow of the dull University of Rummidge in England. Their exchange gradually evolves from jobs to cars, homes, and eventually wives. This book brought David Lodge to prominence in England as a popular ...
A day in the life of Adam Appleby, a graduate student, father of three, Catholic--this is the day his wife Barbara tells him she might be pregnant with a fourth child, forcing him to confront both the academic and domestic pressures bearing down on him. Lodge uses Joyce's ULYSSES as a template for exploring the life of this beleaguered, anxious, ...
The articles which David Lodge wrote for "The Independent on Sunday" for 50 weeks in 1991 and 1992 have been revised and expanded for this book. The art of fiction is considered under a range of headings, such as "The Intrusive Author", "Suspense", "The Epistolary Novel", "Time-shift", "The Sense of Place" and "Symbolism". Each topic is ...
Robyn Penrose is a professor of Victorian industrial novels at Rummidge University. She meets Vic Wilcox, who manages an industrial casting company in town, during preparations for the government-mandated "Industry Year". In his satire, Lodge contrasts Robyn's disdain for industry with Vic's stubborn chauvinism.
This reader is designed as a companion volume and is some sense, sequel to David Lodge's 20th Century Literary Criticism-A Reader. Since the earlier book was compiled, the academic study of literature has been revolutionised by the impact of structuralism and post-structuralist theory. This book aims to provide, within the covers of a single book, ...
A group of British tourists set out from a congested Heathrow to their package holiday. Hawaii, and more particularly the high-rise tourist ghetto of Waikiki, is the stage on which the fortunes of this range of characters cross and occasionally collide. The author also wrote "Nice Work".
When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of ...
This novel concerns the lives of 10 Catholic characters, drawn over 20 years. Educated and erudite, they nevertheless grapple with the complex conflicts of their religion as it meets the contemporary world, particularly when the world includes sex.
Tubby Passmore writes a sitcom program on British television; his wife is a college professor; his mistress only talks to him. Tubby is also in various sorts of therapy--acupuncture, aromatherapy, psychotherapy. Then he begins obsessing about Kierkegaard. Middle-aged Tubby, handled by virtuoso author David Lodge, is poignant, funny, and easily ...
Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and their peers were bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the way from the 1950s to the '70s. On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of the permissive society - the appearance of the pill, the disappearance of Hell and the advent of COC ...
In these 17 essays, Lodge writes about writing--his own, and the work of writers he admires, including Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Kingsley Amis, and Anthony Burgess
Like Colm Tóibín's THE MASTER, David Lodge's novel is an exploration of the last years of Henry James. Beginning in the 1880s, when James has become an internationally famous and successful novelist, Lodge takes the reader deeply into the writer's life as he struggles with the disjunctions between his life and his work, and attempts to turn ...
David Lodge's satirical comedy is the 11th in his series of academic novels. In THINKS..., Helen Reed is a young widow who teaches creative writing at a provincial university, where she is relentlessly pursued by the calculatedly charismatic, sexually predatory--and married--Ralph Messenger, who heads the Center for Cognitive Science. In addition ...
In the years after World War II, Timothy Young is a teenager in London, where life in his lower-middle-class family is stunted by rationing and hardship. When he goes to visit his much older sister Kate, who is working in Germany for the American army, Timothy becomes piercingly conscious of the differences between English and American postwar ...
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air, and on the make, in David Lodge's satirical 'Small World'. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air... ...
Twentieth Century Literature is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory (Longman 1988), also edited by David Lodge, which anthologises contemporary criticism as it has developed through structuralism ...
Like Colm Tóibín's THE MASTER, David Lodge's novel is an exploration of the last years of Henry James. Beginning in the 1880s, when James has become an internationally famous and successful novelist, Lodge takes the reader deeply into the writer's life as he struggles with the disjunctions between his life and his work, and attempts to turn ...
Where do novelists get their 'ideas' from? How do they develop an idea into a narrative with a specific and individual form? How far is the reception of a work of fiction conditioned by factors outside the writer's control? In the first part of this book, in revealing and often amusing reminiscence, David Lodge traces the history of his recent ...
This omnibus lines up David Lodge's trio of brilliantly comic novels that revolve around the University of Rummidge and the lives of its role-swapping academics. When Philip Swallow, lecturer in English at Rummidge, changes places with flamboyant Morris Zapp of Euphoric State University, USA, trouble ensues. Then, ten years on, older but not ...
'What is written lives far longer than we do - or so we would like to think.' From unfinished novel to unsent letters, from prose to play, from Macclesfield to the New Year's Honours List, "Liar's Landscape" is evidence of the late great author's versatility, wit and passion for the written word. When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left ...
Biological invasions are one of the strongest drivers of global environmental change, and invasive species are now often in the public discourse. At the same time, economists have begun to take a real interest in determining how invasive species interact with economic systems, and how invaders should be controlled to optimize societal welfare. ...
The Palladium, Brickley, is the haunting setting for this novel. Here is a seedy Saturday night venue which attracts people searching for something new in their lives. Mark, Clare and Father Kipling are just three of the characters featured.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.
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