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Lodge, David

 
9780713991734: The Practice of Writing: Essays,Lectures,Reviews And a Diary
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ISBN 10: 0713991739 ISBN 13: 9780713991734
Editorial: Allen Lane, 1997

Sinopsis

In this absorbing volume, acclaimed novelist David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills to his own profession, saluting the eminent practitioners of fiction who have influenced his writing, and explaining how literary and dramatic works are made and the many different factors that come into play in this process. The constant theme running through these essays is the mysterious process of creativity. Lodge discusses at length the work of writers he particularly admires - Graham Greene, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Green, Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, and Anthony Burgess. He addresses the situation of the contemporary novelist, both aesthetically and institutionally, and describes the pleasures of the novelistic text. In delineating the different techniques required to work on a novel and a screenplay, he draws on the experience of adapting his own "Nice Work" and Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit" for television, bringing a refreshingly expert candor to the problems that arise between the idea and the performance. The essays conclude with revealing extracts from the diary he kept as his play, "The Writing Game," made its way to the footlights. Lodge's wit and intelligence are evident on every page of this entertaining and instructive volume, which should be of interest both to the practicing writer in any medium and to readers of Lodge who wish to know more about his own art.

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David Lodge is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught from 1960 to 1987.

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Editorial
Allen Lane
Año de publicación
1997
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0713991739
ISBN 13 
9780713991734
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Número de páginas
352
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