The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... fact the whole of Robbe - Grillet's programmatic enterprise - of presenting a ' cleansed ' impersonal world of ... fact of giving a vast expanse of water the name of sea is equivalent to humanising it , for the fact of indicating an ...
... fact the whole of Robbe - Grillet's programmatic enterprise - of presenting a ' cleansed ' impersonal world of ... fact of giving a vast expanse of water the name of sea is equivalent to humanising it , for the fact of indicating an ...
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... fact an old English form that can be found in Chaucer : But , like most of us , I do not really like submitting to reason : I much prefer blind prejudice . And so I stoutly condemn ' I guess ' as an American importation and its use by a ...
... fact an old English form that can be found in Chaucer : But , like most of us , I do not really like submitting to reason : I much prefer blind prejudice . And so I stoutly condemn ' I guess ' as an American importation and its use by a ...
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... facts , will inevitably distort his original evanescent experience . And this is to leave out of account the gap ... fact , is an art form which plays with illusion and reality just like the novel . ( New Statesman , 15 March 1968 ) ...
... facts , will inevitably distort his original evanescent experience . And this is to leave out of account the gap ... fact , is an art form which plays with illusion and reality just like the novel . ( New Statesman , 15 March 1968 ) ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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