The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... human perception , whereas it is now a philosophical and psycho- logical commonplace to regard perception as a ... human and extra - human world and incorporat- ing it into the human world . In other words the word ' sea ' is objective ...
... human perception , whereas it is now a philosophical and psycho- logical commonplace to regard perception as a ... human and extra - human world and incorporat- ing it into the human world . In other words the word ' sea ' is objective ...
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... human , has remained a major feature of twentieth- century art : we find the tendency to dehumanisation being deplored in the twenties by a conservative such as Ortega y Gasset and in the fifties by a Marxist such as Ernst Fischer . And ...
... human , has remained a major feature of twentieth- century art : we find the tendency to dehumanisation being deplored in the twenties by a conservative such as Ortega y Gasset and in the fifties by a Marxist such as Ernst Fischer . And ...
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... human personality . The concepts of human interrelation , or organic community , which we now use superficially or as moral clichés , would come to express concrete realities and felt experience . Man would then pass , for the first ...
... human personality . The concepts of human interrelation , or organic community , which we now use superficially or as moral clichés , would come to express concrete realities and felt experience . Man would then pass , for the first ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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