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David Lodge once confessed to having a fondness for binary structures. Imagine, he wrote, “two professors passing each other over the North Pole on their way to exchange jobs . . . or a parallel ...

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Having visited Ireland first in 1982 and seeing it repeatedly during the Celtic Tiger years and after, my shorthand ...

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The death of the author of such classics of literary criticism as Working With Structuralism and The Modes Of Modern Writing ...

David Lodge, who has died aged 89, was too skilled a novelist simply to replay his own life in his fiction, but he wrote repeatedly in his prize-winning and popular books about two subjects close to ...

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There are a thousand ways of celebrating the Christmas holiday that are culture specific but have a universal appeal. You can ...

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