The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... contemporary novel is not doing badly . Soon , when we least expect it , it will do not merely better but magnificently . Any one of us may , astonishingly , prove the vehicle of some great un- expected masterpiece which will burn up ...
... contemporary novel is not doing badly . Soon , when we least expect it , it will do not merely better but magnificently . Any one of us may , astonishingly , prove the vehicle of some great un- expected masterpiece which will burn up ...
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... contemporary novelist ; he has inherited a form whose principal characteristic is novelty , or stylistic dynamism ... contemporary avant - garde , William Bur- roughs : at least The Naked Lunch looks very like a detailed extra- polation ...
... contemporary novelist ; he has inherited a form whose principal characteristic is novelty , or stylistic dynamism ... contemporary avant - garde , William Bur- roughs : at least The Naked Lunch looks very like a detailed extra- polation ...
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... contemporary society very much longer . I am not too well up in these matters , but I am assured that without him and his predecessors we should not have any culture at all . ' In its comic , inventive and somewhat heartless fashion ...
... contemporary society very much longer . I am not too well up in these matters , but I am assured that without him and his predecessors we should not have any culture at all . ' In its comic , inventive and somewhat heartless fashion ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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