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... present book : I begin with general questions about the present state and possible future of fiction , and go on to talk about the cultural attitudes implicit in the recent English novel . There follows a chapter about some modern ...
... present book : I begin with general questions about the present state and possible future of fiction , and go on to talk about the cultural attitudes implicit in the recent English novel . There follows a chapter about some modern ...
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... present us with puppets in whom they themselves no longer believe . The novel that contains characters belongs well and truly to the past , it was peculiar to an age - that of the apogee of the individual . - It may not be progress ...
... present us with puppets in whom they themselves no longer believe . The novel that contains characters belongs well and truly to the past , it was peculiar to an age - that of the apogee of the individual . - It may not be progress ...
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... presents us with an image of the utmost human degradation - an idiot's vegetative existence ' ( The Meaning of ... present : to offer a blunt criticism in the language of old - fashioned humanism – in Lukács's - - - case , with a ...
... presents us with an image of the utmost human degradation - an idiot's vegetative existence ' ( The Meaning of ... present : to offer a blunt criticism in the language of old - fashioned humanism – in Lukács's - - - case , with a ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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