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... comic - apocalyptic ' school , who have emerged in the last few years and whose most brilliant representa- tive is , I think , Thomas Pynchon . Other names would include Joseph Heller , John Barth , Terry Southern , Stanley Crawford ...
... comic - apocalyptic ' school , who have emerged in the last few years and whose most brilliant representa- tive is , I think , Thomas Pynchon . Other names would include Joseph Heller , John Barth , Terry Southern , Stanley Crawford ...
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... comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting anticipations of the American comic - apocalyptic , or black comic , manner ; indeed , the world war at the end of Vile Bodies is a choice example of a global fictional apocalypse , and ...
... comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting anticipations of the American comic - apocalyptic , or black comic , manner ; indeed , the world war at the end of Vile Bodies is a choice example of a global fictional apocalypse , and ...
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... comic manner of the early Waugh ; but some readers also related it to famous works of Edwardian comic fiction , like Wells's Kipps or Arnold Bennett's The Card . ( Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat is another possible antecedent ...
... comic manner of the early Waugh ; but some readers also related it to famous works of Edwardian comic fiction , like Wells's Kipps or Arnold Bennett's The Card . ( Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat is another possible antecedent ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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