Lodge, David (, 1935-)

The practice of writing / David Lodge. - 1st American ed. - New York : Allen Lane , 1997, c1996 - 340 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

When it comes to the craft of writing, David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge's own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing. As entertaining as it is edifying, this collection of fine writing about writing will prove valuable to students of the art as well as to Lodge's many, loyal readers who wish to know more about his own work.


English.

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Lodge, David (1935) ---Aesthetics


Fiction---History and criticism---Theory, etc.
Fiction---Film and video adaptation.
Authorship

PR6062.O36 / A6 1997

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