Author, Author Of Da Vid Lodgf: From The Perspective Of Polyphonic Novel

David Lodge is a prominent literary critic who has made great contribution to the study of novel in Britain. He is also an indispensable novelist in British literature in the past fifty years. This thesis sets out to analyze the first biographical novel he published in the year 2004: Author, Author, which portrays Henry James as the protagonist and depicts the multi-leveled relationships in the writing profession.This novel has long been read as David Lodge’s venture in fiction writing by including biographical elements into a novel. Therefore former researchers often focused on its genre. However, this thesis would take both the form and content of this novel into consideration, analyzing the text from the perspective of polyphonic novel. The two aspects of polyphonic novels would be looked into, one is the dialogic relationship presented in structure and subjective matter, the other is the carnivalistic elements in the novel. Through the analysis, this thesis testifies that the novel is of polyphonic nature and David Lodge’s originality in polyphonic narratology. Not only an artful blend of biographical facts and novel techniques, this work is also a novel that celebrates the diversity and accentuates the carnivalistic features in writers’ life, a novel with abundant thematic significance that refuses to be exhausted. By analyzing the text with Bakhtin’s theory of polyphonic novel, this thesis makes an effort to connect the form, context, and the dialogic thinking of David Lodge together, in aim to provide a new perspective to interpret this novel.