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Page 56
... admired . I asked him if he saw Herzog as an example of the plight of the bourgeois intellectual in late- capitalist society , but he replied , not at all , he read it as a univer- sally valid statement about the human condition . I ...
... admired . I asked him if he saw Herzog as an example of the plight of the bourgeois intellectual in late- capitalist society , but he replied , not at all , he read it as a univer- sally valid statement about the human condition . I ...
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... admire , than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore . ( BBC recording 1967 : ' Novelists of the Sixties ' ) On the American side , one can find similar ... admired English writers such as S.N. - 3 THE IDEOLOGY OF BEING ENGLISH 65.
... admire , than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore . ( BBC recording 1967 : ' Novelists of the Sixties ' ) On the American side , one can find similar ... admired English writers such as S.N. - 3 THE IDEOLOGY OF BEING ENGLISH 65.
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... admired . Sterne and came to feel an increasing resentment about the novel of solid character and consistent construction . This was H. G. Wells , who , after beginning his literary career with a series of brilliant mythopoeic ...
... admired . Sterne and came to feel an increasing resentment about the novel of solid character and consistent construction . This was H. G. Wells , who , after beginning his literary career with a series of brilliant mythopoeic ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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