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Nice Work de David Lodge : Un « Condition of England novel » des années 1980 ?

Author(s) -

Armelle Parey

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

revue lisa / lisa e-journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1762-6153

DOI - 10.4000/lisa.2910

Subject(s) - rewriting , nice , realism , reflexivity , art history , dimension (graph theory) , art , philosophy , literature , sociology , computer science , anthropology , mathematics , pure mathematics , programming language

In Nice Work, David Lodge appropriates the model of the « condition-of-England novel » which he transposes into the 1980s. More than a mere transposition, Nice Work turns out to be an open rewriting of the Victorian novels quoted in epigraphs since the text, with its comical aspect and its auto-reflexive dimension, distances itself from realism. Far from being innocent, this rewriting considers critically the Thatcher era as well as contemporary literary theory and gives a discerning homage to Victorian novels

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