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Page 101
... verbal skill and a degree of ingenuity that one does not find in most of their English con- temporaries . They approach the problems of writing fiction with an intense , probing consciousness , and their solutions are both very modern ...
... verbal skill and a degree of ingenuity that one does not find in most of their English con- temporaries . They approach the problems of writing fiction with an intense , probing consciousness , and their solutions are both very modern ...
Page 125
... verbal style in the sequence , even while disapproving of it ; he writes that Powell is ' chronicling not so much events as the subtle ironies these might suggest to someone who had studied all the dossiers exhaustively . It is at times ...
... verbal style in the sequence , even while disapproving of it ; he writes that Powell is ' chronicling not so much events as the subtle ironies these might suggest to someone who had studied all the dossiers exhaustively . It is at times ...
Page 193
... verbal autonomy , and ' Montaigne ' the literary persona remains distinct from the real Montaigne . The short answer to this is that the real Montaigne remains for ever unknowable , except to God ; any attempt to render the self in verbal ...
... verbal autonomy , and ' Montaigne ' the literary persona remains distinct from the real Montaigne . The short answer to this is that the real Montaigne remains for ever unknowable , except to God ; any attempt to render the self in verbal ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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