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Page 93
... felt presence of a powerful analytic mind standing outside the scene and selecting the details to name ; that mind's action is entirely concealed , since all the action is dramatized and objectified , but it is acutely felt . But I want ...
... felt presence of a powerful analytic mind standing outside the scene and selecting the details to name ; that mind's action is entirely concealed , since all the action is dramatized and objectified , but it is acutely felt . But I want ...
Page 140
... felt very ill . ( p . 185 ) That novel was , or should be , by Greene . And if at the level of the theme Amis is dissenting from Greene , at the level of form he is different from Waugh , by setting a moral prob- lem at the heart of his ...
... felt very ill . ( p . 185 ) That novel was , or should be , by Greene . And if at the level of the theme Amis is dissenting from Greene , at the level of form he is different from Waugh , by setting a moral prob- lem at the heart of his ...
Page 204
... felt was in attitudes to London , the imperial city , which had felt very oppressive to our first three writers . We may take Rupert Birkin's feeling about London , as expressed in Women in Love , to be Lawrence's . As his train pulled ...
... felt was in attitudes to London , the imperial city , which had felt very oppressive to our first three writers . We may take Rupert Birkin's feeling about London , as expressed in Women in Love , to be Lawrence's . As his train pulled ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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