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DAVID LODGE AND THE ART-AND-REALITY NOVEL - DAN...

Two distinctive views emerge concerning the presumed battle between Lodge's creative and
critical work. One holds that Lodge's fiction is antimodernist and therefore lags behind his
criticism  which displays a theoretical interest in the modernist and - though to a lesser
extent - in the postmodernist text. According to the opposite view  time and again there have
been strong elements of modernism and postmodernism in Lodge's novels. In order to bring
together the two lines of Lodge's work  this study shall focus on some aspects in his fiction
that are also discussed in his criticism. Given this interdependence  his declared interest in
what he calls the 'art-and-reality novel' can be regarded as a major starting-point. The
emphasis falls on various forms of interplay in the fields of literature  criticism and
reality. Accordingly  it should be possible to apply Lodge the theorist to Lodge the novelist
and thus bridge or at least explain the alleged division in his work.

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