Results for 'david lodge'

1. Will Self

The Quantity Theory of Morality

1. Lars Heiler

Ritual, Family and Therapy in Anglophone Literatures

This book investigates the triadic constellations between ritual, family, and therapy in literature in English. Modern therapies, such as family systems therapy, have expanded their range of interest and influence in order to look at the whole family unit, not just the symptomatic individual, as client.

Writers and Their Teachers

By turns reflective, controversial, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.

1. Nigel Wood
2. David Lodge

Modern Criticism and Theory

David Lodge is Emeritus Professor of English Literatureat the University of Birmingham, where he taught from 1960 until 1987. He is well-known as one of the most significant British novelists and critics of recent times. His work, fiction and non-fiction, has been translated into some twenty-five languages Nigel Wood is Professor of Literature at Loughborough University. Widely published as an editor and critic, Nigel is currently working on the Longman Annotated Edition of the poems of Alexander Pope.

1. Rachel Holland

Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan

This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades.

1. Vladimir Nabokov

Pnin

Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, PNIN brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.