The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 58
... chapter . As I suggested in the last chapter , I am quite happy to follow the Marxists in using the word ' ideology ' . It does not come easily to English lips , though it has respectable antecedents in the writings of Karl Mannheim ...
... chapter . As I suggested in the last chapter , I am quite happy to follow the Marxists in using the word ' ideology ' . It does not come easily to English lips , though it has respectable antecedents in the writings of Karl Mannheim ...
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... chapter called ' A Good Old , Rare Old , Armageddon ' . Here the new director of the Zoo , Sir Bobby Falcon , a rakish old gentleman , who looks like a figure in a whisky advertisement , and who has a passionate love of everything ...
... chapter called ' A Good Old , Rare Old , Armageddon ' . Here the new director of the Zoo , Sir Bobby Falcon , a rakish old gentleman , who looks like a figure in a whisky advertisement , and who has a passionate love of everything ...
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... chapter . An- thony Burgess was born in 1917 , but he did not turn to novel - writing until he was nearly forty , having spent much of his life composing music and working as an education officer in Malaya . He seems to me to embody the ...
... chapter . An- thony Burgess was born in 1917 , but he did not turn to novel - writing until he was nearly forty , having spent much of his life composing music and working as an education officer in Malaya . He seems to me to embody the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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