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- Title: Postmodernism Or Neo-Realism: On Parody in David Lodge's Campus Novel Small World/Tradition Et Innovation Du Roman Realiste Britannique: Une Etude Sur la Parodie de Petit Monde de David Lodge (Critical Essay)
- Author : Zhao-guo Ding
- Release Date : January 30, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 106 KB
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INTRODUCTION In the latter half of the 20th century, two alternating streams of realism and experimentalism dominated the development of the British novel (Qu 621-622). However, from the late 1970s to the 1990s it had entered a stage of the concourse of the two streams. People seemed to live in an age of unprecedented cultural pluralism, which allowed the combination of a variety of styles into a single work. It is in this pluralistic context that David Lodge's Small World came into being. Many scholars treat it as a typical postmodern text judging from its formal features such as parody, pastiche, carnival and meta-fiction (Liu; Su; Xu; Yang & Wu; Q. Zhang). However, denying its identification as a postmodernist text, the author of the present paper holds that it emerges out of neo-realism and can be seen as representative of the developing trend of British novel in the 1980s. That is to say, Small World both inherits the great tradition of realism and absorbs some new technical innovations of experimentalism. By analyzing the implications of its important formal feature "parody," the paper aims to reveal the essential characteristics of its creation and its significance in enlightening the developing trend of contemporary British novel.
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