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	Lucky Jim
		Jim Dixon is in his probationary period as an assistant lecturer in history in a provincial university, where he works under the supervision of Professor Welch.
		Jim's failure causes him to be dismissed and he decides to become a schoolmaster, though the prospect fills him with disgust.
		Thus Jim is confronted with the phoneyness of scholarship, of culture and of fashionable art as practise in upper-middle class society.
	home.conceptsfa.nl /~pluttik/lucky_jim.html (1393 words)

	Lucky Jim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucky Jim is a comic novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954.
		Jim Dixon is not particularly dedicated to his job as a medieval history lecturer at a provincial university, having taken it to avoid school teaching, and unable to obtain work in any other field.
		Jim finally has the last laugh as Christine, having found out Bertrand was also pursuing an affair with the wife of one of Jim's former colleagues, decides to resume her relationship with him in London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucky_Jim (566 words)

	SparkNotes: Lucky Jim: Context
		Lucky Jim was also the first in a long line of British campus satires that shifted the object of ridicule from the students to the faculty.
		Lucky Jim was published in 1954 to tremendous popularity, although some critics accused Amis of vulgarity because of the coarse language and immature behavior of Jim Dixon.
		Jim Dixon's resentment of Professor Welch, who holds power over him but also seems incapable of doing his own work, is a good indication of the sentiments of the newly educated post-War generation.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/luckyjim/context.html (666 words)

	Serio-Comic Amis and "True Comic Edge": Lucky Jim and You Can’t Do Both (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim is the only live sensibility in a mausoleum of death—the incarnation of Bergson’s elan vital, the life force pitted against stultifying authorities, the mechanical inhumanity embodied by Professor Welch.
		Even Jim’s ironic self-appraisal, normally a winning trait, is highly disorienting, as when he considers the title of his article: "It was the perfect title, in that it crystallized the article’s niggling mindlessness, its funereal parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems" (16).
		Jim is initially and apparently endlessly involved in a bloodless liaison to which he musters only intermittent passive resistance: "suddenly he’d become the man who was ‘going round’ with Margaret, and somehow competing with" a rival named Catchpole.
	www.williams.edu /English/faculty/rbell/Serio-comic-Amis.html (7196 words)

	Lucky Jim The Reel Image Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Jim of the title refers to Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer in history at a redbrick university, who throughout most of the film is anything but lucky.
		Lucky Jim (1958) was preceded by the highly successful Private's Progress (195 5) and Brothers-In-Law (1956).
		Lucky Jim is consistently hilarious and provokes reactions which range from gentle chuckles to outright guffaws.
	www.thereelimage.co.uk /reviews/luckyjim/luckyjim.htm (336 words)

	NY Times 1935 - Lucky Jim
		On the average, a fight manager is a human harpy who squeezes all he can out of the blood and bones of husky and courageous young fellows and then tosses them callously aside when they are battered hulks of no more financial advantage for him.
		Jim drew one of the exceptions in Joe Gould.
		They made money years ago as Jim bounced out of the amateur ranks to knock a flock of no-account fighters to the floor in the professional ring.
	www.murphsplace.com /crowe/braddock/lucky-jim.html (836 words)

	Lucky Jim, Constant Reader Discussion
		Lucky Jim hits the heights whenever Dixon tries to keep a preposterous situation from spinning out of control, which is every three pages or so.
		Topic: LUCKY JIM by Kingsley Amis (5 of 31), Read 60 times Conf: CONSTANT READER From: Dick Haggart (law@haggart.com) Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 01:49 PM Lucky Jim is one of the funniest books to emerge from a very funny genre inhabited generally by P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh (in part, anyway).
		Topic: LUCKY JIM by Kingsley Amis (23 of 31), Read 40 times Conf: CONSTANT READER From: Dick Haggart (law@haggart.com) Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 12:35 PM Ruth: That can't be it; you seemed perfectly at ease the night I joined you and Leif for dinner.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/luckyjim.htm (5331 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lucky Jim: Books: Kingsley Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim has fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities.
		"Lucky Jim" was Kingsley Amis' first novel, effectively written in collaboration with his friend, the poet, Philip Larkin.
		Meanwhile, all around him are those who have been lucky enough to be born into the upper classes and who are unselfconsciously reaping the benefits of it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Lucky-Jim-Kingsley-Amis/dp/0141006102 (766 words)

	Lucky Jim (1957)
		Lucky Jim, is a Boulting Brothers comedy based on Kingsley Amis's immensely popular satirical novel.
		Ian Carmichael (Jim Dixon) is cast as the eponymous anti-hero, with Terry-Thomas (Bertrand Welch) in attendance, points to the broadly farcical intent.
		The angry junior university lecturer Jim Dixon is invited to the house of pompous Professor Welch (Hugh Griffith) for the weekend, where he is acutely accident-prone and spends the weekend drinking heavily.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/j_boulting/filmography/003.html (257 words)

	immediacy: Lucky Jim
		If Lucky Jim is any indication, now I've just discovered an author who combines the plotting skill of P.G. Wodehouse with the detail of Davies.
		Lucky Jim doubles as a book of high humor and as an attack on the staid British university system of its time (and maybe beyond--I'm no expert in its complexities).
		Jim Dixon, the title character, is a new lecturer in history at a mid-sized college.
	www.engel-cox.org /text/lucky_jim.html (453 words)

	Amazon.com: Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics): Books: Kingsley Amis,David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim Dixon is a young college instructor, trying hard to fit in when he quickly realizes that he should not fit in but plows ahead anyway.
		Jim is the first legitimate "anti-hero" of British literature (or at least the first commoner to hold that distinction), and he was followed by Alex DeLarge and a slew of others into the present day.
		"Lucky Jim" has something to say about the preposterousness of university life, the idiocy of the very teachers that we're supposed to learn from, the plight of ordinary men in extraordinary (at least to them) circumstances, and finally the triumph over adversity with a certain amount of dignity and hard-earned self-respect.
	www.amazon.com /Lucky-Penguin-Classics-Kingsley-Amis/dp/0140186301 (2609 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, reviewed by The Atlantic Monthly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So it is perhaps possible to "locate" Lucky Jim in a tradition of English underdog writing, just as it was later plausible to "situate" it along with the work of John Osborne, John Wain, and other authors of postwar England.
		Larkin's early novel Jill was a satire on low-level academic miseries, and he was the dedicatee of Lucky Jim at a time when he was too little known to be included in the roundup of The Movement.
		Lucky Jim illustrates a crucial human difference between the little guy and the small man. And Dixon, like his creator, was no clown but a man of feeling after all.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_05_14.html (3280 words)

	Lucky Jim about the Novel -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		In Lucky Jim, the idea of the anti-intellectual hero attacking society is treated with a kind of serious comedy to criticize society.
		Due to the previously mentioned idea, Amis called his hero Lucky Jim because he was able to climb the social academic ladder but not in a refined or a respectable manner, yet he succeeded.
		Amis's masterpiece Lucky Jim was published in 1954 and was received by both critics and common people.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/172 (820 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics): Books: Kingsley Amis,David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lucky Jim is one of Amis's best works, filled with intense humour, false bravado and absurd characters.
		The 'hero' Jim Dixon, is intially engulfed by the diverse scope of the eccentric social group with which he finds himself into at University, his students and collegues alike causing him no end of problems.
		Speaking as a student I find the novel to be in parts painfully close to reality, particularly in Jim's dealings with his over-keen student Michie, and the general irreverent nature of university life, despite the fact that it is set over forty years ago, it is still a humourous and well-recorded version of campus life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Lucky-Jim-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141182598 (1347 words)

	Lucky Jim (1957) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Boulting Brothers, themselves on the left, worked "Lucky Jim" into the mildly satirical cycle of movies which made them the main successors to Ealing in the 1950s and early 1960s.
		And the provincial campus is too grand for the era of austerity and demobbed students Amis imagined, as though the Boultings secretly hankered to relocate the tale to Oxbridge.
		Jim's love object Christine, alas, is a tittering cipher on both page and screen.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0050660 (561 words)

	Lucky Jim
		Lucky Jim is a campus novel set in the postwar years in England.
		But Lucky Jim is also a coming-of-age story in which the hero, Jim Dixon, learns about himself, relationships, and about the academic environment in which he feels uncomfortable and out of place.
		When the story begins, Jim's position, which is on trial for two years anyway, is threatened because of a couple of blunders he made.
	discussingbooks.cohprog.com /dbe/English/LuckyJim.htm (375 words)

	KINGSLEY AMIS (1922-1995)
		Jim Dixon's plight provides an early, admittedly caricatured, reference for nearly every graduate student's defenses in the face of utter dependence on forms.
		Jim Dixon is a basket case whose only claim to his job as a university teacher rests on his having none of the disqualifications.
		If most of them in the late books deride their women, the first Lucky Jim Dixon— is, if not chivalric, certainly moral—and at his own expense.
	www.rtis.com /reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/November95/luckyj.htm (959 words)

	Amazon.de: Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics): English Books: Kingsley Amis,David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jim Dixon is a World War II vet who has somehow become a medieval history lecturer at a provincial English university.
		LUCKY JIM had me putting it down often--not in boredom or disapproval, oh my, no!--I just had to pause time and time again to laugh and recover, to let Amis's brilliance sink in--his deceptively calm tone, his nimble use of the language.
		Though the phrase "life-affirming" is overused, trite and, frankly, almost always misused, in the case of "Lucky Jim," it is incredibly apt.
	www.amazon.de /Lucky-Penguin-Classics-Kingsley-Amis/dp/0142180149 (1044 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lucky Jim (Modern Classics): Books: Kingsley Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Follow the misadventures of Jim Dixon, the novice college professor who can't seem to find happiness or luck anywhere, until his life turns around for the better, ironically because of his own irreverance and ineptitude at the climax of this outrageously funny novel.
		Newly graduated, Jim feels lost, does not like his job, dislikes his boss (and the boss's family), and enjoys making fun of pseudo-intellectuals with his razor sharp intellectual sense of humor.
		During this turmoil Jim finds himself hopelessly falling in love with a woman who is "off limits" and he is forced to make some serious choices.
	www.amazon.ca /Lucky-Modern-Classics-Kingsley-Amis/dp/0141182598 (308 words)

	Mid Term Papers: Term Papers on Tribulation And Comedy In Lucky Jim
		Jim's involvement with Margaret is marked by his desire to see it end.
		Moreover, Jim does nothing to amend this, and the reader becomes frustrated with Jim's inaction, and his ready acceptance to let things carry on as they are.
		Jim Dixon's relationship with Margaret is the source of considerable anxiety and distress; yet, he dodges the need to remedy this.
	www.midtermpapers.com /4254.htm (534 words)

	A Dog Named Lucky
		Lucky always stashed his finds in his toy box and he was very particular that his toys stay in the box.
		Jim made his wife comfortable on the couch and left her to nap.
		Lucky stood watching Mary but he didn't come to her when she called.
	home.att.net /~scorh/Lucky.html (435 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Lucky Jim
		A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy).
		Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina).
		But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/luckyjim (182 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| The lecturers' world
		The story: The figure of Jim Dixon is a vehicle for Amis's attack on a wide range of Establishment targets, from ossified academia to BBC cultural elitism.
		The film-maker: The original director of Lucky Jim was Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob; A Fish Called Wanda), who had been shooting for two weeks before he was forced out by John and Roy Boulting, the redoubtable producer-directors on the board of British Lion, the film's producing studio.
		Inspirations and influences: Lucky Jim 's popularity pointed the way for the Boultings: John Boulting's next directorial credit was the Peter Sellers-starring, anti-union satire I'm All Right Jack, credited with contributing to Harold Macmillan's win in the 1959 general election.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1192971,00.html (557 words)

	Jim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim (Medal of Honor), American Indian scout who received a Medal of Honor for his actions in the Indian Wars
		Lucky Jim comic novel written by Kingsley Amis, 1954.
		Runaway Jim (Phish song), a song about a theiving runaway dog who was 119 (in dog years) when he returned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim (181 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Don't Envy Him! - Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The plot: Jim is a probationary history lecturer in an unnamed and obscure provincial university.
		But Jim never comes out with the right response and that, it seems to me, is the problem with the novel: everything either looks very contrived and/or Jim is merely exasperating.
		In this case, it is difficult to imagine Jim's life being quite so dominated by Professor Welch in a real university as it is here, but the nature of such relationships clearly changed anyway between 1953, when this was written, and 1969 when I signed on.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000622.php (1678 words)

	Comedy Central: Movies - Lucky Jim - Plot Summary
		Lucky Jim is based on the same-named satirical novel by Kingsley Amis.
		The hero, Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael), is a well-intentioned junior history professor in an unnamed British university.
		Lucky Jim delivers the laughs in full measure, though it's hardly the best of the Boulting Brothers productions of the 1950s.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/movie/21417/plot.jhtml (188 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre Book Club: KCTS Primetime
		The hapless Jim Dixon, a newly employed assistant lecturer in history at a small British university, attempts to settle in and make a good impression.
		At the beginning of Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis compares assistant history professor Jim Dixon with Dixon's department head, Professor Welch.
		As we can see with Jim's somewhat dire situation, comedy is often generated at the expense of others' misfortune.
	www.kcts.org /primetime/features/bookclub/lucky/index.asp (414 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay - Book: Lucky Jim (ISBN: 0140186301) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" is a hilarious, picaresque novel.
		The protagonist, Jim Dixon, is a history teacher at a British university.
		Jim Dixon is a character that experiences a wide range of social interactions.
	product.ebay.com /Lucky-Jim_ISBN_0140186301_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ41899 (723 words)

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