The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 19
... objects exist in complete isolation and mutual indifference . Robbe - Grillet's intention was to revolt against the kind of novel – exemplified in Proust or Virginia Woolf or Sartre's La Nausée - where objects exist only as part of a ...
... objects exist in complete isolation and mutual indifference . Robbe - Grillet's intention was to revolt against the kind of novel – exemplified in Proust or Virginia Woolf or Sartre's La Nausée - where objects exist only as part of a ...
Page 38
... objects that form their environment ; only very slowly does the reader come to understand there is a third person always present , who observes everything and specu- lates a great deal , but who apparently never speaks . This can be ...
... objects that form their environment ; only very slowly does the reader come to understand there is a third person always present , who observes everything and specu- lates a great deal , but who apparently never speaks . This can be ...
Page 39
... objects , which can be set over against human activity , with the aim of reducing man's domineering place in the universe - is shaky . It rests on a naïve epistemology , which posits a total separation between objects and human ...
... objects , which can be set over against human activity , with the aim of reducing man's domineering place in the universe - is shaky . It rests on a naïve epistemology , which posits a total separation between objects and human ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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