The Practice of Writing: essays, lectures, reviews and a diary.

By: Lodge, DavidMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1997, ©1996Description: xi, 340 pISBN: 9780140261066 ; 0140261060Subject(s): Lodge, David, -- 1935- -- Aesthetics | Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Fiction -- Film adaptations | AuthorshipDDC classification: 808.042
Contents:
Part one : novelists, novels and "the novel" -- The novelist today : still at the crossroads? -- Fact and fiction in the novel : an author's note -- The lives of Graham Greene -- "Lucky Jim" revisited -- Sex, creativity and biography : the young D.H. Lawrence -- Henry Green : a writer's writer's writer -- Joyce's choices -- The maing of "Anthony Burgess" -- What kind of fiction did Nabokov write? a practitioner's view -- Creative writing : can/should it be taught? -- The novel as communication -- Part two : mixed media -- Novel, screenplay, stage play : three ways of telling a story -- Adapting "Nice Work" for television -- Adapting "Martin Chuzzlewit" -- Through the No Entry sign : deconstruction and architecture -- Pinter's "Last to Go" : a structuralist reading -- Playback : extracts from a writer's diary.
Summary: When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge's own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing. As entertaining as it is edifying, this collection of fine writing about writing will prove valuable to students of the art as well as to Lodge's many, loyal readers who wish to know more about his own work.
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Includes Index.

Part one : novelists, novels and "the novel" --
The novelist today : still at the crossroads? --
Fact and fiction in the novel : an author's note --
The lives of Graham Greene --
"Lucky Jim" revisited --
Sex, creativity and biography : the young D.H. Lawrence --
Henry Green : a writer's writer's writer --
Joyce's choices --
The maing of "Anthony Burgess" --
What kind of fiction did Nabokov write? a practitioner's view --
Creative writing : can/should it be taught? --
The novel as communication --
Part two : mixed media --
Novel, screenplay, stage play : three ways of telling a story --
Adapting "Nice Work" for television --
Adapting "Martin Chuzzlewit" --
Through the No Entry sign : deconstruction and architecture --
Pinter's "Last to Go" : a structuralist reading --
Playback : extracts from a writer's diary.

When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge's own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing.
As entertaining as it is edifying, this collection of fine writing about writing will prove valuable to students of the art as well as to Lodge's many, loyal readers who wish to know more about his own work.

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