The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 71
... fiction were total and unchallenged . Perhaps it was at the Ameri- can university where Mr Jacobson was teaching ; nevertheless , dur- ing the last ten years there has been a general acceptance in the academic criticism of fiction of ...
... fiction were total and unchallenged . Perhaps it was at the Ameri- can university where Mr Jacobson was teaching ; nevertheless , dur- ing the last ten years there has been a general acceptance in the academic criticism of fiction of ...
Page 197
... fictional activites , can also refer to the great Modernist innovations in twentieth - century fiction , which realigned the traditional fixed relation between the word and the world . In autobiographical fiction , like A Portrait of ...
... fictional activites , can also refer to the great Modernist innovations in twentieth - century fiction , which realigned the traditional fixed relation between the word and the world . In autobiographical fiction , like A Portrait of ...
Page 203
... fiction . It is very much a novel about process , which is something that preoccupies a wide area of contem- porary Western culture , ranging from action - painting , or ' happen- ings ' , to the literary scholarship that is much less ...
... fiction . It is very much a novel about process , which is something that preoccupies a wide area of contem- porary Western culture , ranging from action - painting , or ' happen- ings ' , to the literary scholarship that is much less ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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