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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 January 1935
- Died
- 1 January 2025
- Works
- 176
Top works
- Vatican roulette
- Paradise News
- Ḥilufe meḳomot
- Ḥoshev...
- Die allerneueste klassische Sau
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Film & TV
Writing · Dulwich, London, England, UK
Known for
- Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene — Self2013
- Family Guy — Kelsey Grammer (voice)1999
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1935
- Active to
- 2025
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 32
- Total plays
- 1,025
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,085x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,587x
- The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 62,982x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 60,986x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 58,022x
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Quotes
- “Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.”
- “Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut – at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus – and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.”
- “Looking around at the faces of his colleagues in the Senior Common Room he felt reassured: not a Lineament of Gratified Desire to be seen.”
- “I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting – the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.”
- “Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”
- “That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me!”
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Key facts
- Born
- David John Lodge , ( 1935-01-28 ) 28 January 1935, London, England
- Died
- 1 January 2025 (2025-01-01) (aged 89), Birmingham , England
- Occupation
- Writer author literary critic
- Notable awards
- Hawthornden Prize , 1975
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- date of birth
- 1935-01-28
- name in native language
- David Lodge
- birth name
- David John Lodge
- date of death
- 2025-01-01
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to David Lodge, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
David John Lodge CBE FRSL (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) was an English novelist and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960).
Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T. S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a collection of essays on literary techniques with illustrative examples from great authors, such as "Point of View" (Henry James), "The Stream of Consciousness" (Virginia Woolf) and "Interior Monologue" (James Joyce), beginning with "Beginning" and ending with "Ending".