The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 90
... aesthetic . There is a comparable division in absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing ...
... aesthetic . There is a comparable division in absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing ...
Page 119
... aesthetic concentration ; but Powell has relied , far more than most contemporary English novelists , on the establishment of his own peculiar verbal environ- ment , as have the American writers discussed in the previous chap- ter . The ...
... aesthetic concentration ; but Powell has relied , far more than most contemporary English novelists , on the establishment of his own peculiar verbal environ- ment , as have the American writers discussed in the previous chap- ter . The ...
Page 195
... aesthetic precision or comprehensiveness ; after writing several admirable works of true fiction , he turned to books which , though looking like novels , were dialogues , or even monologues , where the vital and urgent issues of the ...
... aesthetic precision or comprehensiveness ; after writing several admirable works of true fiction , he turned to books which , though looking like novels , were dialogues , or even monologues , where the vital and urgent issues of the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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