Nice Work by David Lodge. Realism Revisited

Intermediate Diploma Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature Works course: Bachelor in Language and English Literature language: English abstract: The aim of this thesis is to trace how David Lodge's fictional piece Nice Work (1984) subverts the compositional principles of the canonical realist novel by undermining the principle of mimesis through different devices: firstly through narratological devices such as the choice of intrusive narrator and the device of breaking frame and secondly through discursive devices such as transtextuality mainly intertextuality paratextuality metatextuality and hypertextuality and parody. This thesis then purports to trace these elements and to delve into the undermining effects these devices have on the compositional principles of realist fiction.