On The Image Of Intellectuals In The Novels Of David Lodge's Campus

David Lodge, an accomplished novelist and literary critic in contemporary British literary world, is famous for his description of campus life that he knows well and the shaping of images of scholars, so he is renowned as one of the Gemini of the School Novel. His academic novels created many lifelike intellectual images in modern academic world. And this paper aims to interpret those images by figure analysis and text analysis and explore the symbolic meanings and artistic characteristics of those intellectual images.This paper consists of five parts. The Introduction part briefly describes David Lodge's life and his creative work, gives an overview current research on his academic novels, and displays the significance of this paper.Chapter One presents several types of intellectuals in Lodge's academic novels. Those intellectuals are persistent in the pursuit of something -- some seek fame, some, love and some, academy study. According to different pursuits, those intellectuals can be divided into three categories: Morris Zapp and Philip Swallow are representatives of those who chase fame and fortune; the persistent pursuer of love refers to Perth, a romantic love knight with romantic features; the person devoted himself/herself to academic life, is Rofin Penrose, a quiet female scholar.Chapter Two describes typical characteristics of intellectual images portrayed by Lodge'. The essential characteristic of those intellectuals is that they are all anti-heroes full of comedy and satirical style in post-modern society. This chapter is composed of three parts and discusses the"anti-hero"characteristics of three types of intellectuals respectively: Zapp and Swallow, corrupt and degenerated noble; Love Knight Perth, pure, persistent but outdated; academic pursuer Rofin, knowledgeable with alienated thought.Chapter Three shows aesthetic characteristics of intellectual images in Lodge's novel. From an aesthetic point of view, those intellectuals portrayed by Lodge are all comic roles in modernism works. They lived in university ivory tower unreachable to ordinary people, but were stripped of the sacred aura and lost their heroic elevation and ideology. These comic images of intellectuals described by David Lodge do not only fit the comic spirit of his creative writing, but also demonstrates his unique comedy style.The Conclusion part summarizes the un-ignorable status and significance of intellectual images portrayed by David Lodge in the history of British campus novels.