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(Selected Metafictional techniques in David Lodge’s Changing Places (1975

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         Changing Places by David lodge is the first novel in his campus trilogy. It enlightens selected metafictional techniques used by the writer to unveil the difference between university life in both England and America.  Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp- the two protagonists in the novel- take part in a six- month change program to renew their power and save their private lives. In the course of the novel, Lodge expresses serious certain political issues in the 1960s and 1970s including the students' revolution, the Vietnam War and Women Movements. In the novel, the reader discovers that the characters have not only changed their positions but also their values and ideologies. By the open end of the novel, Lodge inquires will protagonists restore their old life or prefer their existence in new changed one.

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10.21608/herms.2018.66225

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Metafictional techniques, Change program, self consciousness, parody, irony, contradiction, intertextuality, autobiographical approach

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Aesha

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Abdel kader

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Assistant Lecturer in the Academy of Arts, English Department

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7

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4

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9986

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2018-10-01

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2019-12-25

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2018-10-01

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57

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73

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2090-8555

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2974-4695

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(Selected Metafictional techniques in David Lodge’s Changing Places (1975

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22 Jan 2023