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Page 88
An idea that could have been interesting is virtually incomprehensible . ... Ineffective though he himself is in proposing and in discussing ideas , Hartwell thinks the world of the ideas used by SF writers .
An idea that could have been interesting is virtually incomprehensible . ... Ineffective though he himself is in proposing and in discussing ideas , Hartwell thinks the world of the ideas used by SF writers .
Page 203
Wells's fight with James was , we should remember , not over narrowly formal issues , but over large issues of the place of ideas and debate in art and the final importance or irrelevance of conscious technique .
Wells's fight with James was , we should remember , not over narrowly formal issues , but over large issues of the place of ideas and debate in art and the final importance or irrelevance of conscious technique .
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Nothing is more typical than for him to summarize the plot of a story or novel , identify the basic ideas , and then show how they are self - contradictory or incompatible with known facts . The inevitable conclusion is that the work is ...
Nothing is more typical than for him to summarize the plot of a story or novel , identify the basic ideas , and then show how they are self - contradictory or incompatible with known facts . The inevitable conclusion is that the work is ...
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