Lodge, David, 1935-

The novelist at the crossroads and other essays on fiction and criticism / David Lodge. - London ; New York : Ark, c1971 [reprinted 1986] - xi, 297 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London : Routledge and K. Paul, 1971.

Includes Bibliography: p. [287]-291 and index.

The novelist at the crossroads--Waiting for the end: current novel criticism--Towards a poetics of fiction: an approach through language--Choice and chance in literary composition: a self-analysis--Graham Greene--The uses and abuses of omniscience: method and meaning in Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie--The Chesterbelloc and the Jews--Objections to William Burroughs--Samuel Beckett: some ping understood--Hemingway's clean, well-lighted, puzzling place--Assessing H. G. Wells--Utopia and criticism: the radical longing for Paradise--Post-pill Paradise Lost: John Updike's Couples--Crosscurrents in Modern English criticism.

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