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Page 45
... John Bayley the Longinus of neo - realist criticism . There is no awareness in his writing that it is at such moments when , as one readily agrees , the novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre ...
... John Bayley the Longinus of neo - realist criticism . There is no awareness in his writing that it is at such moments when , as one readily agrees , the novelist seems to offer us the very stuff of life itself , not part of a pre ...
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... John Bayley is a very much better critic than these stringent comments on his general stance might imply , but that stance seems to me so sig- nificant , and so representative of a peculiarly English way of look- ing at literature ...
... John Bayley is a very much better critic than these stringent comments on his general stance might imply , but that stance seems to me so sig- nificant , and so representative of a peculiarly English way of look- ing at literature ...
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... John Osborne offers a clear example of this tendency to look back to a ... Bayley : " The common reader probably clings to novelists who appear unaware ... John Bayley's point is true of Anthony Powell , since , in my reading , many of ...
... John Osborne offers a clear example of this tendency to look back to a ... Bayley : " The common reader probably clings to novelists who appear unaware ... John Bayley's point is true of Anthony Powell , since , in my reading , many of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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