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... Tradition and Dream was published in 1966 , and in 1967 Allen gave up literary journalism to become the first Professor of English Studies at the New University of Ulster . Between 1955 and 1975 he also spent several periods as a ...
... Tradition and Dream was published in 1966 , and in 1967 Allen gave up literary journalism to become the first Professor of English Studies at the New University of Ulster . Between 1955 and 1975 he also spent several periods as a ...
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... traditions of the novel as they exist outside England ; he may draw on Dostoevsky or Proust or Joyce , to say nothing of the nineteenth - century French . Nevertheless , while the native English tradition is extraordinarily capable of ...
... traditions of the novel as they exist outside England ; he may draw on Dostoevsky or Proust or Joyce , to say nothing of the nineteenth - century French . Nevertheless , while the native English tradition is extraordinarily capable of ...
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... tradition " ' , the atavistic may still lurk , and the great fault of Tradition and Dream , I now think , was its failure to recognise how inextricably the novel is bound up with the other , more symbolic genres . I don't recall that ...
... tradition " ' , the atavistic may still lurk , and the great fault of Tradition and Dream , I now think , was its failure to recognise how inextricably the novel is bound up with the other , more symbolic genres . I don't recall that ...
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