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Page 37
... hand - to - hand fighting , the hope of achiev- ing success , the exercise of one's ascendency , the more important it was . It was something , to have a face , in a universe where personality was at the same time the means and end of ...
... hand - to - hand fighting , the hope of achiev- ing success , the exercise of one's ascendency , the more important it was . It was something , to have a face , in a universe where personality was at the same time the means and end of ...
Page 42
... hand to hand fighting ' . In the English novel the tone is gentler , and the stress is on the ties of affection and community , radiating outwards from the family to the larger social grouping . If Rastig- nac's farewell characterises ...
... hand to hand fighting ' . In the English novel the tone is gentler , and the stress is on the ties of affection and community , radiating outwards from the family to the larger social grouping . If Rastig- nac's farewell characterises ...
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... hand , com- municated directly and forcefully : he instanced Saul Bellow's Herzog , which he greatly admired . I asked him if he saw Herzog as an example of the plight of the bourgeois intellectual in late- capitalist society , but he ...
... hand , com- municated directly and forcefully : he instanced Saul Bellow's Herzog , which he greatly admired . I asked him if he saw Herzog as an example of the plight of the bourgeois intellectual in late- capitalist society , but he ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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