The Situation of the Novel |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 14
Page 161
... Amis's fiction in roughly the order in which I have set them down here , assume a different pattern of frequency in Wilson's work ; one does not regard him primarily , as one still tends to regard Amis , as a comic novelist . Even so ...
... Amis's fiction in roughly the order in which I have set them down here , assume a different pattern of frequency in Wilson's work ; one does not regard him primarily , as one still tends to regard Amis , as a comic novelist . Even so ...
Page 164
... Amis's own occasional ventures into science fiction , the story called ' Something Strange ' is a pure exercise in ... Amis's attachment to a central thread of English in- sular nonconformism , and his distaste for cosmopolitan modern ...
... Amis's own occasional ventures into science fiction , the story called ' Something Strange ' is a pure exercise in ... Amis's attachment to a central thread of English in- sular nonconformism , and his distaste for cosmopolitan modern ...
Page 174
... Amis is close to the attitudes of his anti - death crusaders , so that Max Hunter's rejection of his past can be seen as a valediction to Lucky Jim . One is not , of course , certain whether Amis would endorse all the ideas expressed in ...
... Amis is close to the attitudes of his anti - death crusaders , so that Max Hunter's rejection of his past can be seen as a valediction to Lucky Jim . One is not , of course , certain whether Amis would endorse all the ideas expressed in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achievement admired aesthetic Afternoon Men American fiction Amis Amis's Anthony Anti-Death League attitudes B. S. Johnson Barth Bayley's become Brideshead Brideshead Revisited British Burgess C. P. Snow called Caute certainly chapter character comic consciousness contemporary critical cultural David Lodge described discussion Eliot England English fiction English novelists English novels essay experience fact Farrell feel genre Golden Notebook hero human ideas ideology imagination inevitably instance interest Jenkins's John Barth John Bayley Joyce kind less liberal literary literature looking Lucky Jim Marxist modern Music myth narrative narrator nineteenth-century novelist past perhaps possible Powell Powell's present Proust published Pynchon reader realistic novel reality recent remarked Robbe-Grillet seems sense shows Siege of Krishnapur Snow Snow's social society story Strangers and Brothers Swim-Two-Birds Sword of Honour things tion Tolstoy traditional trilogy twentieth century verbal Waugh Widmerpool Wilson words writing young