Novelist, playwright, teleplaywright, and literary critic, David Lodge ranks as one of English literature's most overlooked and under-appreciated writers of modern fiction. In this new critique, Merritt Moseley examines the many facets of Lodge the man and Lodge the writer, his Catholic and University education, his origins in England's literary rebirth of the 1950s, and his unique ability for fictive change.
Novelist, playwright, teleplaywright, and literary critic, David Lodge ranks as one of English literature's most overlooked and under-appreciated writ...
Understanding Julian Barnes surveys the career of an innovative British novelist who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize on three occasions. In this analysis of Barnes's distinctive qualities and of his place in the British literary establishment, Merritt Moseley suggests that Barnes's greatest achievement is his ability to resist summary and categorization by imagining each book in a dramatically original way. In evaluating Barnes's fiction, Moseley discusses the novelist's admiration for Gustave Flaubert, identifies his technical and thematic concerns, and explores the intrigue...
Understanding Julian Barnes surveys the career of an innovative British novelist who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize on three occasions....
