The Academic-Industrial Duality in David Lodge's Nice Work

Abstract

The following paper is an attempt to read David Lodge's Nice Work with a particular reference to the position of the academic critic in the present world and its challenges. It comprises two sections: the first is preliminary, covering the various misconceptions held about critics and their field. The second gives a detailed analysis of how Robyn Penrose shows a firm faith in her cultural and critical enterprise and at the same time reaches a reconciliation with the real working life..