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Page 93
... less readily inclined to sympathise with authors whose premise is that such reality no longer exists , or at least is inaccessible , and that the novelist must produce some new and possibly better version . One is , in fact , back with ...
... less readily inclined to sympathise with authors whose premise is that such reality no longer exists , or at least is inaccessible , and that the novelist must produce some new and possibly better version . One is , in fact , back with ...
Page 126
... less frequent . Thus , even the most overtly realistic novel is to some extent about its own inherited conventions , a notion updated and simplified by Marshall McLuhan as ' the medium is the message ' . John Bayley , who clings to an ...
... less frequent . Thus , even the most overtly realistic novel is to some extent about its own inherited conventions , a notion updated and simplified by Marshall McLuhan as ' the medium is the message ' . John Bayley , who clings to an ...
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... less diagrammatic . One wishes that it had achieved the same reputation . The Wanting Seed appeared in 1962 , the same year as A Clock- work Orange , and is clearly the product of much the same im- aginative impulse . It is a less ...
... less diagrammatic . One wishes that it had achieved the same reputation . The Wanting Seed appeared in 1962 , the same year as A Clock- work Orange , and is clearly the product of much the same im- aginative impulse . It is a less ...
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Preface to the First Edition | 6 |
Preface to the Second Edition | 8 |
The Novel No Longer Novel II | 11 |
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