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Page 27
... novelists have tried to break away from these limitations , of which the necessity for simple chronological development has been the most tyrannical . Robbe - Grillet has written cogently about the problem of handling time in a novel ...
... novelists have tried to break away from these limitations , of which the necessity for simple chronological development has been the most tyrannical . Robbe - Grillet has written cogently about the problem of handling time in a novel ...
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... novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional ... novelists may be quite happy at such a prospect - for words themselves are made up out of lived human meanings ...
... novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional ... novelists may be quite happy at such a prospect - for words themselves are made up out of lived human meanings ...
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... novelists and writers of science fiction there have been many apocalyptic visions of the Third World War , where traditional and generic versions of horror are combined with speculative scenarios about the possible nature of a nuclear ...
... novelists and writers of science fiction there have been many apocalyptic visions of the Third World War , where traditional and generic versions of horror are combined with speculative scenarios about the possible nature of a nuclear ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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