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David Lodge (28 January 1935 β 1 January 2025) was an English comic novelist and literary critic. For twenty years, he was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
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βLiterature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.β
βLooking around at the faces of his colleagues in the Senior Common Room he felt reassured: not a Lineament of Gratified Desire to be seen.β
βI'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting β the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.β
βThat's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen β fly me!β
βLanguage is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.β
βFour times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut β at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus β and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.β
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David Lodge on Scholarship
βMorris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of oneβs peers.β
David Lodge on Tourism
βThat's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen β fly me! Or Shakespeare or T.S. Elliot, or Hazlitt. All tickets to ride. To ride the jumbo jets.β
About David Lodge
David Lodge (28 January 1935 β 1 January 2025) was an English comic novelist and literary critic. For twenty years, he was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.