Results for 'david lodge'

1. Ashraf Ibrahim , Zidan

Accademici e romanzo

Lo scopo di questo libro è quello di descrivere il romanzo del campus inglese per fornire un riassunto dei suoi tratti chiave e attirare l'attenzione sulla dissoluzione del mito della torre d'avorio, a lungo conservato dalla comunità accademica. Un protagonista ingenuo, una trama episodica, un tono satirico e una moltitudine di personaggi di supporto stilizzati, secondo Wiegenstein (1987), sono le quattro convenzioni che distinguono la college fiction come un sottogenere distinto. Le trame di questo genere possono essere completamente diverse e avere varie funzioni; a volte, come nel romanzo Il cane di Joseph O'Neil (2015), si intrecciano intorno alla critica del mondo reale al di fuori dei confini accademici. Inoltre, come nel caso di Nice Work di David Lodge, può concentrarsi sul conflitto tra principi accademici e valori commerciali, nonché sulla loro applicabilità alla società nel suo complesso. Infine, può soffermarsi sulla descrizione delle molestie sessuali come in Der Campus (1996) di Dietrich Schwanitz: Un professore di sociologia e concorrente per la posizione di cancelliere/presidente dell'università si imbatte in un gravoso incidente con una studentessa che lo accusa di comportamento inappropriato e di stupro con l'aiuto del rettore.

1. Ashraf Ibrahim , Zidan

Universitaires et roman

L'objectif de ce livre est de décrire le roman universitaire anglais afin d'en résumer les principales caractéristiques et d'attirer l'attention sur la dissolution du mythe de la tour d'ivoire, longtemps entretenu par la communauté universitaire. Selon Wiegenstein (1987), un protagoniste naïf, une intrigue épisodique, un ton satirique et une multitude de personnages secondaires stylisés sont les quatre conventions qui font de la fiction universitaire un sous-genre distinct. Les intrigues de ce genre peuvent être totalement différentes et avoir des fonctions diverses ; parfois, comme dans le roman Joseph O'Neil's Dog (2015), elles s'entremêlent autour de critiques du monde réel en dehors des frontières académiques. En outre, comme dans Nice Work de David Lodge, il peut se concentrer sur le conflit entre les principes académiques et les valeurs commerciales, ainsi que sur leur applicabilité à la société dans son ensemble. Enfin, il peut s'attarder sur la description du harcèlement sexuel, comme dans Der Campus de Dietrich Schwanitz (1996) : Un professeur de sociologie et candidat au poste de chancelier/président de l'université est confronté à un incident pénible avec une étudiante qui l'accuse de comportement inapproprié et de viol avec l'aide du doyen.

1. Ashraf Ibrahim , Zidan

Academics and Novel

The purpose of this book is to describe the English campus novel in order to give a summary of its key traits and draw attention to the dissolution of the academic community's long-held myth of the ivory tower. A naive protagonist, an episodic plot, a satirical tone, and a multitude of stylized supporting characters, according to Wiegenstein (1987), are the four conventions that distinguish college fiction as a distinct subgenre. The plots of this genre may be totally different and have various functions; sometimes, as in the novel Joseph O'Neil's Dog (2015), they are intertwined around critiques of the real world outside of academic boundaries. Additionally, as in David Lodge's Nice Work, it may focus on the conflict between academic principles and commercial values as well as their applicability to society as a whole. Finally, it may dwell upon the description of sexual harassment as in Dietrich Schwanitz¿s Der Campus (1996): A professor of sociology and contestant for the position of chancellor/university president stumbles upon a burdensome incident with a female student who accuses him of inappropriate behavior and rape with the help of the dean.

1. Luiza-Elena , Enachi-Vasluianu

A Stylistic Approach to Irony in David Lodge's Campus Trilogy

This book proposes a stylistic approach to David Lodge's academic universe depicted in his trilogy Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work. With novels formally and subthematically distinct, not intended as a trilogy in the first place, Lodge's work has been subjected to close, not yet exhaustive, analysis. The critic studies published up to the present focus especially on the field of literary criticism and agree that irony is the unifying key of the novels in the trilogy. The novelty of this study comes from the prevalently linguistic stylistic analysis of the multifaceted academic universe. Its purpose was to validate the intuitions of the critics or of the readers, for that matter, and to emphasize new facts of style which have not been investigated so far. This led to the identification and analysis of a wide range of stylistic strategies of rendering irony, the challenging game of the literary texts of the trilogy.

1. Bárbara , Arizti Martin

'Textuality as Striptease': The Discourses of Intimacy in David Lodge's 'Changing Places'and 'Small World'

The book analyses how David Lodge's Changing Places and Small World relate to the sphere of the intimate in the decades in which they were written, published and read. The analysis of the novels is preceded by an approach to Lodge's work and a theoretical section which looks at the concept of intimacy, the evolution of intimate practices in the sixties, seventies and eighties and the connections between intimacy and literary genre. This leads on to a study of Changing Places and Small World in their intimate contexts and an exploration of their links with the genres of comedy and romance. The author uncovers significant ideological differences between the two novels, which have often been lumped together by the critics.

From Philosophy of Fiction to Cognitive Poetics

Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also present different approaches to translation theory, and metaphor theory (both classical and conceptual). Other chapters address the issues of figurativeness and poetic language, apply the principles of cognitive poetics to analyse different types of texts, and provide cognitive approaches to abstraction in visual and verbal art, also to the categories of similarity and difference in perception and language. The analysed authors include Wallace Stevens, Rae Armantrout, Ernest Hemingway and David Lodge.