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... less a great and original work for being one more example of a well - worn Renaissance genre , the tragedy of revenge . * Reprinted in Alta : University of Birmingham Review , Winter 1968-9 . - What is less welcome is the way in which ...
... less a great and original work for being one more example of a well - worn Renaissance genre , the tragedy of revenge . * Reprinted in Alta : University of Birmingham Review , Winter 1968-9 . - What is less welcome is the way in which ...
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... less sure of itself and more modest , perhaps because it has abandoned the idea of the omnipotence of the individual , but it is more ambitious too , as it looks beyond it . The exclusive cult of the ' human ' has given place to a ...
... less sure of itself and more modest , perhaps because it has abandoned the idea of the omnipotence of the individual , but it is more ambitious too , as it looks beyond it . The exclusive cult of the ' human ' has given place to a ...
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... less frequent . Thus , even the most overtly realistic novel is to some extent about its own inherited conventions , a notion updated and simplified by Marshall McLuhan as ' the medium is the message ' . John Bayley , who clings to an ...
... less frequent . Thus , even the most overtly realistic novel is to some extent about its own inherited conventions , a notion updated and simplified by Marshall McLuhan as ' the medium is the message ' . John Bayley , who clings to an ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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