The Analysis Of Narrative Art Of David Lodge's Campus Trilogy

David Lodge, who is a well- known contemporary novelist, is mainly famous for his Campus Trilogy: Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work written in 70-80 in the 20 century.This thesis intends to make a comprehensive study of Lodge's Campus Trilogy on the basis of the theory of classical narratology.In the narrative discourse plane, Campus Trilogy use the traditional external narrator primarily and the character narrator as a supplement mode. Objective and order of the external-narrator combine with subjective and authenticity of the character narrator, cause the works to present one kind of objective solemn appearance, also have a strong and subjective color. At the same time, the flexible conversion between the external focalization and the internal focalization, have a feeling of reality and kindness. Flashforward and flashback cause readers looking forward to reading. In the narrative discourse, the experimental narrative technique which uses the intertextuality and the ironic humor tradition in English Literature, have a strong academic atmosphere.In the narrative structure plane, the surface structure and the deep structure combine perfectly in the Campus Trilogy. In the surface structure, the novels use macroscopic diachronic structure; simultaneously match the spatial juxtaposition technique. Both of them demonstrate a broad field of vision and a vivid image. In the deep structure, the novels contain a dualistic structure, which manifests the subjects of the conflict of culture in Britain and the United States, the conflict of Perce who pursues pure love and scholars who pursue fame, fortune and sex, the conflict of culture in campus and industry.Lodge is a novelist at the "crossroads" in the wave of Post-modernism. He integrates the traditional narrative techniques of Realism with the experimental narrative techniques of Modernism and Post-modernism in the novels. In a word, Campus Trilogy demonstrate the inclusive narrative feature.