Elements of Parody in David Lodge's Nice Work

CONTENTS

1.  Introduction: Defining Parody  2

2.  Parodic Strategies in Nice Work  3

3.  Foregrounding of the Victorian Novel  3

3.1  Exposing Narrative Conventions  3

3.2  Discussing the Victorian Novel  5

4.  The Ambiguous Heroine  7

5.  Poststructuralism in Nice Work  8

6.  Nice Work as a Romance  9

7.  A Balanced Pastiche  10

8.  Parody as a philosophic Approach  11

9.  Bibliography  13

1. Introduction: Defining Parody

1 Linda Hutcheon: A Theory of Parody. London, Methuen, 1985, p. 55. 2 Ibid, p. 50.

3 Ibid, p. 32.

4 Daniel Amman: David Lodge and the Art-and-Reality Novel. Heidelberg, Winter, 1991, p. 67. 5 Hutcheon, work cited, p. 32.

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6 All quotes from Nice Work refer to the following edition: David Lodge, Nice Work, Harmondsworth, Penguin,

1989.

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