The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 62
... England . Nevertheless , I wanted to know why excitement should be regarded as the supreme good ; is there not something absurd about rational adults demanding larger and larger doses of excitement from art and literature ? My guests ...
... England . Nevertheless , I wanted to know why excitement should be regarded as the supreme good ; is there not something absurd about rational adults demanding larger and larger doses of excitement from art and literature ? My guests ...
Page 64
... England does the concept of Nature seem alive : although there is also a Marxist version of it in Lukács's idea of ... England : There is no scene in the arts in England ... what small activity I have found among younger artists in ...
... England does the concept of Nature seem alive : although there is also a Marxist version of it in Lukács's idea of ... England : There is no scene in the arts in England ... what small activity I have found among younger artists in ...
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... England is a flat and dismal place , of petty lusts and feeble adulteries , drawing its values entirely from television , though faint traces of an earlier England can still be discerned : - The Black Swan stood in a pocket of decaying ...
... England is a flat and dismal place , of petty lusts and feeble adulteries , drawing its values entirely from television , though faint traces of an earlier England can still be discerned : - The Black Swan stood in a pocket of decaying ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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