The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... 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 that any student of literature ...
... 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 that any student of literature ...
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... literature , and the more I studied that literature itself , the more unfamiliar it paradoxically came to seem . NORMAN PODHORETZ , Making It IN the autumn of 1966 I had a conversation in Budapest with a sharply intelligent critic and ...
... literature , and the more I studied that literature itself , the more unfamiliar it paradoxically came to seem . NORMAN PODHORETZ , Making It IN the autumn of 1966 I had a conversation in Budapest with a sharply intelligent critic and ...
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... literature has shown no sign of absorbing the achievements of twentieth - century science , beyond a certain amount of trivial and inaccurate allusion . Yet it could be argued that the art and literature of the Modern Movement reflect ...
... literature has shown no sign of absorbing the achievements of twentieth - century science , beyond a certain amount of trivial and inaccurate allusion . Yet it could be argued that the art and literature of the Modern Movement reflect ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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