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Page 44
... novelist as Proust is in- evitably limited , by tidying up life and imposing moral formulas on it : ' Tolstoy is like life and Proust is like a vision of it ... ' I accept this particular insight , while feeling disturbed by Bayley's ...
... novelist as Proust is in- evitably limited , by tidying up life and imposing moral formulas on it : ' Tolstoy is like life and Proust is like a vision of it ... ' I accept this particular insight , while feeling disturbed by Bayley's ...
Page 45
... novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional illusion rises to new heights of epistemo logical and moral trompe l'œil . In so far as the novelist must mediate ...
... novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional illusion rises to new heights of epistemo logical and moral trompe l'œil . In so far as the novelist must mediate ...
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... novelist of the 1960s , Julian Mitchell : we read autobiography exactly as we read fiction , to enter imaginatively into other people's lives and so to explore the world and ourselves . What distinguishes autobiography is the ease with ...
... novelist of the 1960s , Julian Mitchell : we read autobiography exactly as we read fiction , to enter imaginatively into other people's lives and so to explore the world and ourselves . What distinguishes autobiography is the ease with ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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