- History and criticism, Theory, Criticism, Technique
"The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form.
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Spare, warm, cool and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- David Lodge
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Penguin, Secker & Warburg, Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780140174922
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“Even Thetis, dipping her mortal boy In Styx, dreaming of armoring him Against both worlds, gripping her joy In fatal fingers, allowed the dim Danger of her handhold on his heel.”
David Lodge (born January 28, 1935, London, England—died January 1, 2025, Birmingham, England) was an English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor known chiefly for his satiric novels about academic life, especially the Campus trilogy: Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984), and Nice Work (1988). Lodge was educated at University College, London (B.A., 1955; M.A., 1959), and at the University of Birmingham (Ph.D., 1967). His early novels, known mostly in England, included The Picturegoers (1960), about a group of Roman Catholics living in London; Ginger, You’re Barmy (1962), Lodge’s novelistic response to his army service in the mi
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