| Title: | (Ex)Change, Identity, Reality and Meta/fiction. David Lodge’s ‘Tale’ |
| Author: | Ramona Hosu |
| Publication: | Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia, 13, p. 219 |
| p-ISSN: | 1582-9960 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea Petru Maior |
| Place: | Târgu Mureș |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | David Lodge’s Changing Places remains canonical among contemporary (postmodern) novels, thirty years after its publication. It has managed to become the epitome of what the writer and critic understands by ‘a good novel’, namely a type of narrative that exerts so much power that the reader feels entrapped in the story, being challenged to read it ‘more than once’. The present study tries to analyse some of the elements that make such a perfect construction possible, focusing, at fictional, metafictional, theoretical and critical level, on a ‘tale’ about an academic exchange of a British and an American professor, which may be a mere pretext for Lodge to explore the art of fiction while humorously approaching the issue of intercultural communication in a world that obsessively desires to change. |
| Key words: | change, reality, meta/fiction, identity, ‘life and art’ |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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