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... social groups by the sharing of important experiences - is an important tool in understanding Waugh . He wrote brilliantly - though in the mode of fantasy rather than of realism - about that generation , and he wrote for them . In his ...
... social groups by the sharing of important experiences - is an important tool in understanding Waugh . He wrote brilliantly - though in the mode of fantasy rather than of realism - about that generation , and he wrote for them . In his ...
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... social types . But their basic sympathies were so different that their techniques also were widely separate . For instance , Waugh has no real representative among the characters of his enter- tainments , while Amis is Lucky Jim , and ...
... social types . But their basic sympathies were so different that their techniques also were widely separate . For instance , Waugh has no real representative among the characters of his enter- tainments , while Amis is Lucky Jim , and ...
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... social comedy , with all that genre's implicit loyalty to social norms . We find a Commedia art as brilliant as Brecht's in Waugh's entertainments , but it is allied to social conser- vatism . We find a use of vaudeville as bold as ...
... social comedy , with all that genre's implicit loyalty to social norms . We find a Commedia art as brilliant as Brecht's in Waugh's entertainments , but it is allied to social conser- vatism . We find a use of vaudeville as bold as ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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