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Page 37
... concern with humanism is to abolish it . Robbe - Grillet is a brisk operationa- list , concerned purely with questions of process and technique , and to my mind an almost perfect exponent of what Marcuse calls the one - dimensional ...
... concern with humanism is to abolish it . Robbe - Grillet is a brisk operationa- list , concerned purely with questions of process and technique , and to my mind an almost perfect exponent of what Marcuse calls the one - dimensional ...
Page 90
... concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self - contained verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred : the novelist , who must use words with meanings , cannot ...
... concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self - contained verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred : the novelist , who must use words with meanings , cannot ...
Page 143
... concerned in the election , he takes an integral part in all the conversations which he reports : here he is in no sense an eavesdropper . Again , the subject of sexual love , which Snow usually has trouble with , is largely absent from ...
... concerned in the election , he takes an integral part in all the conversations which he reports : here he is in no sense an eavesdropper . Again , the subject of sexual love , which Snow usually has trouble with , is largely absent from ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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