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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic translation of David Lodge's literary theory in China. It includes Lodge's famous works that are widely cited by academic circles, covering the theoretical essence of various development periods of his literary theory and criticism over the past forty years (including "New Criticism", "Structuralism", "Bakhtin's Theory", "New Century" and other periods), and tries its best to reflect the logic and integrity of its evolution. This book contains the following aspects of Lodge's literary theory: 1. Exploration of the poetics of novels, including "the language of novels", typology of novel discourse, the relationship between novels and consciousness, characteristics of biographical novels, etc.; 2. Sorting out and researching the development history of novels; 3. Modern literature, especially modern British literature. The history of literary development and the classification and classic analysis of various genres (such as the "pendulum" theory); 4. Research on the practice of novel creation, including the relationship between writers and readers and their reception, the relationship between writers and their creation and publishing, and the literary market; 5. Research on the relationship between novels and other media; etc. Lodge's wise language, illuminating arguments, simple explanations, incisive analysis and unique insights are all reflected in the selected papers in this book.

This is the second novel by David Lodge, a representative writer of academic novels. It was published in 1962. It is a black humor work with military themes from the same period as "Catch-22". This book tells the story of the dull and vulgar military life during the British military service system after World War II: rounds of equipment demonstrations, endless queue training, monotonous labor, and only occasional breaks when listening to lectures on firearms or sexually transmitted diseases. In the two years since they lost their freedom, the reckless and impulsive "Ginger Head" Mike and the pragmatic Jonathan have adopted completely different attitudes, and their destinies have also been very different.