Lodge, David: Changing Places

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Das Dokument beschreibt ein Buch namens „Changing Places“ von David Lodge. Der Autor und seine Werke werden kurz vorgestellt. Das Buch handelt von zwei Professoren für englische Literatur, Philip Swallow und Morris Zapp, die aufgrund eines Austauschprogramms zwischen ihren Universitäten die Plätze tauschen. Es geht um ihre persönlichen Abenteuer und Beziehungen während ihres Aufenthalts in den jeweils anderen Ländern. Der Leser bekommt Informationen zu den Hauptfiguren, den Orten, der Zeit und dem Handlungsverlauf. Der Schreibstil des Buches wird ebenfalls kurz beschrieben, es wird zwischen normaler Erzählweise, Briefen und Zeitungsartikeln gewechselt. Das Buch endet offen mit einem Gespräch zwischen den vier Hauptcharakteren über ihre zukünftigen Beziehungen.
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Changing Places Author: David Lodge was born in London in 1935 and took his BA and MA degree at University College, London in 1955 and 1959. He holds a doctorate from the University of Birmingham, where he taught in the English Department from 1960 until 1987, when he retired to become a full-time writer. He retains the title of Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at Birmingham and continues to live in that city. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His novels include The Picturegoers (1960), Ginger, You re Barmy (1962); The British Museum is Falling Down (1965);Out of the Shelter (1970); Changing Places (1975), for which he was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the Yorkshire Post Fiction Prize; How Far Can You Go?, which was Whitbread Book of the Year in 1980; Small World, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984; Nice Work, which won the 1988 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Paradise News (1991) and Therapy (1995). David Lodge has written several books on literary criticism, such as Language of Fiction (1966), The Novelist at the Crossroads (1971), and The Modes of Modern Writing (1977). He has also edited Modern Criticism and Theory (1988). Many of his works have been published by Penguin, such as Write On (1986), a collection of occasional essays and The Art of Fiction (1992), a selection of articles originally published in the Independent on Sunday. He also produced several ...
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