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... particular attention to this state of affairs in his entertaining novel The British Museum is Falling Down , in which the hero , a graduate student of literature , constantly interprets his experience in terms of literary parody . In an ...
... particular attention to this state of affairs in his entertaining novel The British Museum is Falling Down , in which the hero , a graduate student of literature , constantly interprets his experience in terms of literary parody . In an ...
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... particular phase of history , and was permeated with a belief in originality and the value of individual expression and of individual experience . The ultimate question is whether a movement which , though compli- cated , is basically ...
... particular phase of history , and was permeated with a belief in originality and the value of individual expression and of individual experience . The ultimate question is whether a movement which , though compli- cated , is basically ...
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... particular distanced way , the narrative movement , the solid characterisation , the descriptive care , of the nineteenth- century realistic novel , that supposedly obsolete and unavailable form . All of which is commented or enlarged ...
... particular distanced way , the narrative movement , the solid characterisation , the descriptive care , of the nineteenth- century realistic novel , that supposedly obsolete and unavailable form . All of which is commented or enlarged ...
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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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