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Humor v univerzitních románech Davida Lodge / Humour in the Campus Novel of David LodgeVOLDŘICHOVÁ, Magda January 2011 (has links)
The subject of this work is analyses and interpretation of David Lodge´s campus novels. In the concrete, the diploma paper is focused on sources and elements of comicality, especially humour, satire and parody, in Lodge´s free trilogy Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work. The starting point of this diploma paper is characterisation of the genre of the campus novel, with the inclusion of the social situation in the period of the genesis of this genre, and the short outline of its representatives, with emphasis on the novel of Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim. In the following the work considers the ways of the realisation of comicality in the text and from this basis the practical part derives. The main aim is to point out the ways of usage of comic in Lodge´s campus novels and this purpose is achieved in the analysis of the particular texts.
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"And Never the Twain Shall Meet"? : Separate Worlds and Characterization in David Lodge's Nice WorkHallén Rizzo, Jan January 2011 (has links)
This essay uses some tenets of structuralism as well as the concept of “discourse” to analyze David Lodge’s novel Nice Work (1988). The opposite discourses of Academia and Industry, as expounded through the life and character of the main protagonists, are analyzed as they are exposed throughout the novel through the involuntary mingling of the main characters. The governing idea is that three separate discourses can be gleaned as a basic structure in the novel, forming a triad that suggests the idea of a possible synthesis, which is shown to be what propels the plot of the novel onward. As in Hegelian dialectics the clash between a thesis and its antithesis makes the reader expect the third term, a synthesis, which is offered in the mediating discourse of the narrator. Further, this essay focuses on three levels of exchange within the novel and its protagonists: the intellectual, emotional and practical ones. The synthesis of discourses is shown to come to a halt in the end, and the opposites seem to stand unperturbed, even though an exchange of values, ideas and actions has occurred.
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Postmodern or post-Catholic? : a study of British Catholic writers and their fictions in a postmodern and postconciliar worldMitras, Joao Luis 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional
methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is
here taken as an example ofthe 'Catholic novel'. In order to determine ifthe overlap ofpostmodern.
and Christian-influenced narrative strategies constitutes more than a convergence or coincidence of
formal concerns, narrative form in these novels is analyzed in the light of neo-Tho mist and Tho mist
aesthetics, a traditional Catholic Christian theory of the arts. The 'postmodern' in these 'Christian'
texts becomes largely a coincidence of terminology. Narrative forms which can be classified as
'postmodern' can also be categorized using the terminology of Thomas Aquinas. The apparent
similarities betray radically divergent metaphysical presuppositions, however. The nature of the
Catholic 'difference' lies in the way postmodern forms are used to challenge the metaphysical
bases of those forms. / English Studies / M.A. (English)
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Postmodern or post-Catholic? : a study of British Catholic writers and their fictions in a postmodern and postconciliar worldMitras, Joao Luis 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional
methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is
here taken as an example ofthe 'Catholic novel'. In order to determine ifthe overlap ofpostmodern.
and Christian-influenced narrative strategies constitutes more than a convergence or coincidence of
formal concerns, narrative form in these novels is analyzed in the light of neo-Tho mist and Tho mist
aesthetics, a traditional Catholic Christian theory of the arts. The 'postmodern' in these 'Christian'
texts becomes largely a coincidence of terminology. Narrative forms which can be classified as
'postmodern' can also be categorized using the terminology of Thomas Aquinas. The apparent
similarities betray radically divergent metaphysical presuppositions, however. The nature of the
Catholic 'difference' lies in the way postmodern forms are used to challenge the metaphysical
bases of those forms. / English Studies / M.A. (English)
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