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... original work , if it were not for the way in which its stress on the long memories of the old recalled Proust's Le Temps retrové . Recently a distinguished first novel , Paul Bailey's At the Jerusalem , was devoted to a similar ...
... original work , if it were not for the way in which its stress on the long memories of the old recalled Proust's Le Temps retrové . Recently a distinguished first novel , Paul Bailey's At the Jerusalem , was devoted to a similar ...
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... original act of colonialist exploitation : the supersession of Neanderthal man seen by Golding as an immensely gentle and attractive creature by the more ruthless homo sapiens . The whole of humanity is involved in the guilt for this ...
... original act of colonialist exploitation : the supersession of Neanderthal man seen by Golding as an immensely gentle and attractive creature by the more ruthless homo sapiens . The whole of humanity is involved in the guilt for this ...
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... original evanescent experience . And this is to leave out of account the gap between language , as a necessarily inexact system of codification , and the unknowable reality which it labours to describe : ' the limits of my language are ...
... original evanescent experience . And this is to leave out of account the gap between language , as a necessarily inexact system of codification , and the unknowable reality which it labours to describe : ' the limits of my language are ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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