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Page 69
... effect such teaching has had on his own attitude to his craft , as a writer from England where , as he says , ' writers tend to work by intuition and concern themselves little with theory or technique ' . He says : * There is an ...
... effect such teaching has had on his own attitude to his craft , as a writer from England where , as he says , ' writers tend to work by intuition and concern themselves little with theory or technique ' . He says : * There is an ...
Page 107
... effect as soon as the death duties were paid off . But the general aspect and atmosphere of the place ; the line of its battlements against the sky ; the central clock tower where quarterly chimes disturbed all but the heaviest sleepers ...
... effect as soon as the death duties were paid off . But the general aspect and atmosphere of the place ; the line of its battlements against the sky ; the central clock tower where quarterly chimes disturbed all but the heaviest sleepers ...
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... effect ; style functions actively in Amis's comic writing , as it does in Powell's . John Gross has remarked on the way in which many of Amis's comic effects originate in his linguistic finesse rather than in the comedy of situation ...
... effect ; style functions actively in Amis's comic writing , as it does in Powell's . John Gross has remarked on the way in which many of Amis's comic effects originate in his linguistic finesse rather than in the comedy of situation ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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