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... hero , a graduate student of literature , constantly interprets his experience in terms of literary parody . In an interview David Lodge observed : The British Museum book is partly a sort of effort to exorcise the enormous influence ...
... hero , a graduate student of literature , constantly interprets his experience in terms of literary parody . In an interview David Lodge observed : The British Museum book is partly a sort of effort to exorcise the enormous influence ...
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... hero of myth . As his perhaps too obviously symbolic name implies , he is the ultimate survivor of a former age and ... heroes - with the notable exception of Basil Seal - he is also slightly stupid . If he is the last wistful inheritor ...
... hero of myth . As his perhaps too obviously symbolic name implies , he is the ultimate survivor of a former age and ... heroes - with the notable exception of Basil Seal - he is also slightly stupid . If he is the last wistful inheritor ...
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Bernard Bergonzi. Delightful fellows , heroes too , I daresay , but the Wrong Period . Last - war stuff , Guy . Went out ... hero - worshipping of a Charles Ryder looks altogether suspect . Guy's disillusionment is completed in the final ...
Bernard Bergonzi. Delightful fellows , heroes too , I daresay , but the Wrong Period . Last - war stuff , Guy . Went out ... hero - worshipping of a Charles Ryder looks altogether suspect . Guy's disillusionment is completed in the final ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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