David Lodge and the Art-and-Reality Novel

David Lodge and the Art-and-Reality Novel.
Anglistische Forschungen 216. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1991. 172 S.
ISBN 3-8253-4404-5 (Kt); 3-8253-4405-3 (Ln); ISSN 0179-1389. CHF 39.– (Pb) / CHF 63.50 (Hb).
https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/person/1726/Daniel_Ammann/

The study covers both creative and critical works by the contemporary British author David Lodge with a focus on aspects of his novel-writing. Art Imitates Life, the first part in a triptychal approach, revisits some theoretical issues concerning language, reality and criticism, situating Lodge’s fictional realism in a comprehensive poetics of artistic representation. Art Imitates Art explores various forms and functions of intertextuality in their narrative context and discusses two crucial influences: Graham Greene and James Joyce. Following a «cheerful symmetry», the third part – Life Imitates Art – deals with the reversal of realistic imitation and the ways in which fiction affects the interpretation of reality. From literary association to re-enactment, Lodge’s characters illustrate how life is shaped and fictionalized through language and patterns derived from art.

Rezensionen:

AAA 20.1 (1995): S. 238–243.

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51.1 (Winter 1993): S. 89–90.

English Studies 74.2 (1993): S. 194–195.

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 40.3 (1992): S. 266–267.

Das Argument 194 (1992): S. 620–622.

 

 

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