Modernism şi postmodernism: Aspecte legate de opera critică a lui David Lodge
Modernist and Postmodernist Literary Criticism in the Work of David Lodge

Author(s): Stăncuţa Ramona Dima-Laza
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: Literature; criticism; novel; modernism; reader
Summary/Abstract: Literature cannot be simply regarded as a set of rules and codes which should be deciphered from a language point of view. According to linguists, literary criticism does not decide what is correct and what is not, and does not deal with valid and invalid principles. The job of a critic is not that of revealing the hidden understandings of a novel, because literature can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways, relying on a system of signs. This article highlights the affinity that David Lodge has for criticism and the way in which his academic experience reflects in his entire work. Although the uninitiated reader may find it difficult to perceive his wisdom, irony, paradox, or the intertextual elegance that is in the background of his academic novels, the author has always focused on creating a bridge between fiction and criticism.

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