The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... feel a peculiar tension between the words , conventions , and ideas that the masters of his craft have handed on to him and the facts , impressions , and ex- periences that life continues to offer ' ( The Gates of Horn , 1967 : p . 137 ) ...
... feel a peculiar tension between the words , conventions , and ideas that the masters of his craft have handed on to him and the facts , impressions , and ex- periences that life continues to offer ' ( The Gates of Horn , 1967 : p . 137 ) ...
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... feeling his way into the art of fiction . The organisation is casual and episodic : a conscientious but faded British ... feel like that about each other anyway ; Burgess , in whose vision of life an Augustinian sense of human depravity ...
... feeling his way into the art of fiction . The organisation is casual and episodic : a conscientious but faded British ... feel like that about each other anyway ; Burgess , in whose vision of life an Augustinian sense of human depravity ...
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... feel an increasing resentment about the novel of solid character and consistent construction . This was H. G. Wells , who , after beginning his literary career with a series of brilliant mythopoeic scientific romances , and then going ...
... feel an increasing resentment about the novel of solid character and consistent construction . This was H. G. Wells , who , after beginning his literary career with a series of brilliant mythopoeic scientific romances , and then going ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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