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... Burgess with rather unfocused comic exuberance . One of his under- lying subjects is racialism , which Burgess sees in more complex terms than the conventional Western liberal ; he shows Malaya as a melting - pot of races where , quite ...
... Burgess with rather unfocused comic exuberance . One of his under- lying subjects is racialism , which Burgess sees in more complex terms than the conventional Western liberal ; he shows Malaya as a melting - pot of races where , quite ...
Page 180
... Burgess has no great affection for his characters , or at least he feels that they deserve what they get : at the end of Malayan Trilogy the dim but likeable Victor Crabbe is stubbed out as casu- ally as a cigarette . In both works the ...
... Burgess has no great affection for his characters , or at least he feels that they deserve what they get : at the end of Malayan Trilogy the dim but likeable Victor Crabbe is stubbed out as casu- ally as a cigarette . In both works the ...
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... Burgess's depressed anatomy of England and a rendering of what the language of Eliot has accustomed us to speak of as ' spiritual death ' ; in the epigraph to Tremor of Intent Burgess quotes from Eliot : " The worst that can be said of ...
... Burgess's depressed anatomy of England and a rendering of what the language of Eliot has accustomed us to speak of as ' spiritual death ' ; in the epigraph to Tremor of Intent Burgess quotes from Eliot : " The worst that can be said of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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