| David Lodge is one of the most excellent contemporary campus fiction writers in Britain.He has created a series of intellectual novels by virtue of his keen insight into western situation.Small World is Lodge’s masterpiece and a typical novel of intellectual theme.By means of the rich description of various intellectuals,the book shows the intricate relationship between academic research,literary creation,publishing,media,and other systems in the western academic circles.It also skillfully integrates various literary criticism theories into the creation of novels and raises various questions about the function,system and future of literary criticism.Being different from the traditional novels,Lodge has shaped a group of intellectuals under the system of contemporary college campus.It is a more professional group that has its own characteristics of the times in their own living environment,behavior and living habits.From the view of Lodge,it seems to be a pity that contemporary intellectuals have been reshaped by college life,which this kind of remodeling even includes the disarmament of their mental state and self-imposed exile.This thesis will combine with the related theory of western intellectuals and the concept of writer to research the problem of contemporary campus intellectual’s mental decline in Lodge’s Small World by way of spiritual anatomy. |
