The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... cultural en- vironment ' as a perfect model of neo - capitalist cultural processes . Nevertheless , in its narrower applications , Meyer's argument seems to me substantially true , particularly with reference to the novel . The ...
... cultural en- vironment ' as a perfect model of neo - capitalist cultural processes . Nevertheless , in its narrower applications , Meyer's argument seems to me substantially true , particularly with reference to the novel . The ...
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... cultural and literary attitudes as self - evidently right , and the opposite position , that dismisses recent English literature as flat , tame and hopelessly rooted in the past . I should like , in a provisional way , to adopt the cultural ...
... cultural and literary attitudes as self - evidently right , and the opposite position , that dismisses recent English literature as flat , tame and hopelessly rooted in the past . I should like , in a provisional way , to adopt the cultural ...
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... cultural myth ( one need only check some of the titles published by the lesser or middle - grade American university presses to see the truth of this ; the most unlikely works or authors are subjected to critical analysis and historical ...
... cultural myth ( one need only check some of the titles published by the lesser or middle - grade American university presses to see the truth of this ; the most unlikely works or authors are subjected to critical analysis and historical ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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