David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, dies at 89
In the second book of the trilogy, "Small World" (1984), Morris Zapp, an astute theorist lecturing at a conference, uses the striptease style supposedly popular in the nudist go-go bars of Berkeley, California, as a metaphor of what continental theory has discovered about language:“This is not striptease, it is all strip and no tease, it is the terpsichorean equivalent of the hermeneutic fallacy of recoverable meaning, according to which if we remove the covering of its rhetoric from a literary text we discover the bare facts that it is. trying to communicate."It is the beginning of a long and hilarious comic monologue on poststructuralist theory, all the more effective because, like the previous one, it is actually analysable. It is also obscene, so much so that during its performance “a ...