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Page 76
... imaginative entity . I will conclude this chapter with an account of another recent English novel , an equally complex ... imagination back to the public world of shared human ex- √perience . I am referring to Andrew Sinclair's Gog ...
... imaginative entity . I will conclude this chapter with an account of another recent English novel , an equally complex ... imagination back to the public world of shared human ex- √perience . I am referring to Andrew Sinclair's Gog ...
Page 178
... imagination and the secret fears of their readers . The only answer is to create an equally convincing projection of the future in optimistic or truly utopian terms ; and this , because of the inevitable biases of the human imagination ...
... imagination and the secret fears of their readers . The only answer is to create an equally convincing projection of the future in optimistic or truly utopian terms ; and this , because of the inevitable biases of the human imagination ...
Page 208
... imagination . Here his views chime interestingly with those ex- pressed by Wells more than thirty years before ; Wells , too , had come to prefer documentary record to fiction : ' Who would read a novel if we were permitted to write ...
... imagination . Here his views chime interestingly with those ex- pressed by Wells more than thirty years before ; Wells , too , had come to prefer documentary record to fiction : ' Who would read a novel if we were permitted to write ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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