Refine
Has Fulltext
- yes (9)
Document Type
- Doctoral Thesis (3)
- Bachelor Thesis (2)
- Working Paper (2)
- Journal article (1)
- Conference Proceeding (1)
Keywords
- Diskursanalyse (9) (remove)
Institute
- Institut für deutsche Philologie (2)
- Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen (2)
- Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (1)
- Institut für Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und Südasiens (1)
- Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie (1)
- Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen (bis 2007) (1)
- Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) (1)
In spite of David Lodge’s rejection of the theories labelled as poststructuralist, this thesis proves that his novels can be interpreted from a Foucauldian perspective. The concept of discourse, seen by the French philosopher as intricately linked with knowledge, power and truth, enables the distinction of four main discourses in Lodge’s novels, religious, gender, ethnic and literary. The analysis reveals that in David Lodge’s fiction there is a perpetual struggle for power illustrating Foucault’s idea of the interdependence between power, knowledge, truth and discourses circulated by institutions.