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... Burgess was born in 1917 , but he did not turn to novel - writing until he was nearly forty , having spent much of his life composing music and working as an education officer in Malaya . He seems to me to embody the opposition between ...
... Burgess was born in 1917 , but he did not turn to novel - writing until he was nearly forty , having spent much of his life composing music and working as an education officer in Malaya . He seems to me to embody the opposition between ...
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... Burgess with rather unfocused comic exuberance . One of his under- lying subjects is racialism , which Burgess sees in more complex terms than the conventional Western liberal ; he shows Malaya as a melting - pot of races where , quite ...
... Burgess with rather unfocused comic exuberance . One of his under- lying subjects is racialism , which Burgess sees in more complex terms than the conventional Western liberal ; he shows Malaya as a melting - pot of races where , quite ...
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... Burgess's depressed anatomy of England and a rendering of what the language of Eliot has accustomed us to speak of as ' spiritual death ' ; in the epigraph to Tremor of Intent Burgess quotes from Eliot : ' The worst that can be said of ...
... Burgess's depressed anatomy of England and a rendering of what the language of Eliot has accustomed us to speak of as ' spiritual death ' ; in the epigraph to Tremor of Intent Burgess quotes from Eliot : ' The worst that can be said of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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