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Home Truths
From the author of the Booker Prize finalist Small World. Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the "A" level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. His university friend Sam Sharp, who has become a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a vicious profile of himself by Fanny Tarrant, one of the new breed of Rottweiler interviews, in a Sunday newspaper. Together they decide to take revenge on the interviewer, though Adrian is risking what he values most: his privacy. David Lodge's dazzling novella examines with wit and insight the contemporary culture of celebrity and the conflict between the solitary activity of writing and the demands of the media circus. "Sharp, intelligent, surprising and fun."-The Times "Lodge is pure dazzling style, book after book, in his fusion of form and content."-The New Republic
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Almas y cuerpos
Polly, Dennis, Angela y Adrian, un grupo de jóvenes católicos ingleses, se ven, como todos, obligados a mantener su 'inocencia espiritual' y su virtud durante sus años de universidad en Londres. Pero los sesenta no son precisamente una época sencilla para mantenerse firme en las 'buenas costumbres'. Por un lado, están el sexo y la píldora; por otro, la Iglesia no deja de amenazar con las penas del infierno a los más temerarios. Los años transcurren y el grupo pasa de la virginidad militante al matrimonio más o memos avenido, y luego al adulterio y al descreimiento más absoluto. ¿Hasta dónde puedes llegar si Dios te está vigilando constantemente? Furiosamente autobiográfica, 'Almas y cuerpos' es un ácido retrato de la Inglaterra que pasa de la de la fe a la pérdida total de la inocencia.Afilado y controvertido, vuelve el mejor David Lodge con una comedia negra sobre sexo, catolicismo y juventud. Una novela de campus inolvidable, cínica y divertidísima.
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David Lodge and the Art-and-Reality Novel
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Un hombre con atributos
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Quite A Good Time to be Born
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother.
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El arte de la ficción
El arte de la ficción reúne un ciclo de artículos de crítica literaria en los que David Lodge analiza, partiendo siempre de uno o dos fragmentos de novelas clásicas o modernas, los principales aspectos y posibilidades del arte de la ficción: el narrador omnisciente, la novela epistolar, el tiempo, el realismo mágico, el simbolismo, la ironía... Escritores tan diversos como Henry James o Martin Amis, Jane Austen o Fay Weldon, Henry Fielding o James Joyce dan pie a un completo esclarecimiento de los resortes de la obra narrativa y a la explicación de términos técnicos como el punto de vista, el monólogo interior, la intertextualidad... Con la amenidad y el humor característicos de todas sus novelas, David Lodge ofrece un libro agradable y altamente instructivo que está destinado a convertirse en una obra imprescindible para estudiantes de literatura, escritores en ciernes y todos aquellos que deseen averiguar y comprender los mecanismos internos de la ficción.
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The Modes of Modern Writing
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge's typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author.
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Westliches und islamisches Frauenbild in Elisabeth Gaskells "North and South" (1854), David Lodges "Nice Work" (1988) und Monica Alis "Brick Lane" (2003)
Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Englisch - Literatur, Werke, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der englische Roman integrierte mit Defoes Werk Moll Flanders (1722) eine Frauenfigur, die die Grundlage für so viele andere wurde. Das 18. und 19. Jahrhundert erschuf mit Autoren wie Fielding, Austen oder den Brontë -Schwestern weibliche Gegenbilder in einer männlich dominierten Welt und sie zeigten auf, dass die literarische Präsentation von Frauen anders sein musste und konnte, eine Grundstruktur, die sich im Roman bis in die Gegenwart gehalten hat.Gaskell steht mit der Figur einer Margaret Hale an der Schnittstelle zwischen 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, da sie noch fest in gesellschaftlichen Traditionen verwurzelt zu sein scheint, aber auch erste emanzipatorische Ansätze aufweist. Diese Polarität prädestiniert sie für einen Vergleich mit Robyn Penrose, der weiblichen Hauptfigur von Nice Work (1988), da dieser Roman North and South (1854/55) intertextuell benutzt, was eine literarische Annäherung erlaubt.Die Hinzunahme von Monica Alis Brick Lane (2005) erweitert die hier vorgelegte Analyse von Frauen, die als anders gelten müssen. Sie zeigt auch, dass gerade die Autorinnen mit Migrationshintergrund (und hier besonders diejenigen, die über einen islamischen Hintergrund verfügen) diejenige Gruppierung ist, die die literarische Präsentation von Frauen vorantreiben und neu akzentuieren, weil sie dies als Insider und Outsider der englischen Gesellschaft tun können. Diese Doppelperspektive erlaubt gerade dem westlichen Leser einen neuen Zugang zur Frauenfigur, weil der Islam bestens geeignet ist, innere Konflikte und Kämpfe aufzuzeigen, beides Voraussetzungen für eine Betonung der Identitätsthematik von Frauen, die anders als Andere sind.
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David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel
An engaging study of one of the most popular contemporary British novelists.
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A Man of Parts
A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the compelling true story of Wells's life and transformed it into a witty and deeply moving narrative about a fascinating yet flawed man. Wells had sexual relations with innumerable women in his lifetime, but in 1944, as he finds himself dying, he returns to the memories of a select group of wives and mistresses, including the brilliant young student Amber Reeves and the gifted writer Rebecca West. As he reviews his professional, political, and romantic successes and failures, it is through his memories of these women that he comes to understand himself. Eloquent, sexy, and tender, the novel is an artfully composed portrait of Wells's astonishing life, with vivid glimpses of its turbulent historical background, by one of England's most respected and popular writers.
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Paradise News
Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii.
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Ginger, You're Barmy
When it isn't prison, it's hell.Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit layout, square-bashing, shepherd's pie 'made with real shepherds' and drills is relieved only by the occasional lecture on firearms or V.D. The reckless, impulsive Mike and the more pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to survive this two-year confiscation of their freedom, with dramatic consequences
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