Culture as Profitable Memory at David Lodge
Culture as Profitable Memory at David Lodge

Summary/Abstract: The world of academia is perceived as a competitive milieu full of rivalry. University teaching staff in Britain find themselves in the midst of a whirlpool of ideological and conceptual trends. The effort of academics to stay tuned and to keep up with every new intellectual issue transforms universities into a fierce professional environment. David Lodge humorously analyzes the effects of this excessive professionalization on the academics’ personalities and personal lives. His approach in Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975) and Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) is different from the tenser one adopted by Malcolm Bradbury in The History Man (1975).

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