David Lodge

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5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,085x

2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 77,587x

3. The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.

   · 1986 · cited 62,982x

4. Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error

   · 1981 · cited 60,986x

5. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

   · 2009 · cited 58,022x

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Quotes

• “Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.”
• “Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut – at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus – and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.”
• “Looking around at the faces of his colleagues in the Senior Common Room he felt reassured: not a Lineament of Gratified Desire to be seen.”
• “I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting – the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.”
• “Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”
• “That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me!”

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Key facts

Born

David John Lodge , ( 1935-01-28 ) 28 January 1935, London, England

Died

1 January 2025 (2025-01-01) (aged 89), Birmingham , England

Occupation

Writer author literary critic

Notable awards

Hawthornden Prize , 1975

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