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Page 45
... novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional illusion rises to new heights of epistemo logical and moral trompe l'œil . In so far as the novelist must mediate ...
... novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre - arranged artifact , that the fictional illusion rises to new heights of epistemo logical and moral trompe l'œil . In so far as the novelist must mediate ...
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... novelist ; one thinks of Pynchon , Barth , Vonnegut , Hawkes , and Heller . English novelists are less inclined to do this . It may be that the Americans have less history , and what there is has already been turned into myths which ...
... novelist ; one thinks of Pynchon , Barth , Vonnegut , Hawkes , and Heller . English novelists are less inclined to do this . It may be that the Americans have less history , and what there is has already been turned into myths which ...
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... novelist - out of a full knowledge of all the possible choices he might make . It would be a reflective realism , aware of the con- ventionality of fiction , whilst open to the world of experience ; as a matter of deliberate choice and ...
... novelist - out of a full knowledge of all the possible choices he might make . It would be a reflective realism , aware of the con- ventionality of fiction , whilst open to the world of experience ; as a matter of deliberate choice and ...
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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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