The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 70
... Never- theless Hinde firmly concludes that the novelist should understand the critical implications of what he is doing : A writer cannot block all analytical or critical thoughts about his craft . He necessarily accumulates them as he ...
... Never- theless Hinde firmly concludes that the novelist should understand the critical implications of what he is doing : A writer cannot block all analytical or critical thoughts about his craft . He necessarily accumulates them as he ...
Page 119
... never lost its basic flavour . Apart from its intrinsic merits , Afternoon Men shows the essence of Powell's fictional method . There is , in the first place , his reliance on style as a mode of mediating experience ; this is not to say ...
... never lost its basic flavour . Apart from its intrinsic merits , Afternoon Men shows the essence of Powell's fictional method . There is , in the first place , his reliance on style as a mode of mediating experience ; this is not to say ...
Page 135
... never , in fact , shown any openness to the idea that changes in science and changes in art and literature may both be part of the same Weltanschauung , nor , indeed , that literature may depend on any causes other than the mere whim of ...
... never , in fact , shown any openness to the idea that changes in science and changes in art and literature may both be part of the same Weltanschauung , nor , indeed , that literature may depend on any causes other than the mere whim of ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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