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Page 49
... nature of society having changed , and one's confidence in it having so largely evaporated . I think myself that pattern in a novel is very important . This is something which writers vary about : some want a very clear pattern and ...
... nature of society having changed , and one's confidence in it having so largely evaporated . I think myself that pattern in a novel is very important . This is something which writers vary about : some want a very clear pattern and ...
Page 63
... nature of reality and the values that per- meate it . The rule of Nature accepts without question the givenness of the world , in all its diversity . On the other hand , in the literature of the Human Condition , we are concerned with a ...
... nature of reality and the values that per- meate it . The rule of Nature accepts without question the givenness of the world , in all its diversity . On the other hand , in the literature of the Human Condition , we are concerned with a ...
Page 64
... Nature implies were specifically disowned by the American idea and left out of the American dream . For America , Nature had to become the Human Condition . ( p . 270. ) As Bayley admits , the distinction is not and cannot be absolute ...
... Nature implies were specifically disowned by the American idea and left out of the American dream . For America , Nature had to become the Human Condition . ( p . 270. ) As Bayley admits , the distinction is not and cannot be absolute ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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