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... language that the central paradox of Beckett's art resides : his humanoids all have a very cultivated and fluent way of expressing themselves . They are also , even in extremis , irresistably comic : it may be that in the English ...
... language that the central paradox of Beckett's art resides : his humanoids all have a very cultivated and fluent way of expressing themselves . They are also , even in extremis , irresistably comic : it may be that in the English ...
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... language shared by reader , characters , and author necessarily limits the possible shapes that action , persons , and language itself can assume . ( 1967 : pp . 13-14 ) I do not know whether Poirier realised it , but these words read ...
... language shared by reader , characters , and author necessarily limits the possible shapes that action , persons , and language itself can assume . ( 1967 : pp . 13-14 ) I do not know whether Poirier realised it , but these words read ...
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... language , as a necessarily inexact system of codification , and the unknowable reality which it labours to describe : ' the limits of my language are the limits of my world ' . A complete answer to B. S. Johnson has been given by ...
... language , as a necessarily inexact system of codification , and the unknowable reality which it labours to describe : ' the limits of my language are the limits of my world ' . A complete answer to B. S. Johnson has been given by ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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