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Page 75
... reader as well as his characters , and is constantly setting traps for him . At the end the elaborate , pretentious glittering struc- ture collapses into anti - climax and absurdity , in which the reader's dissatisfaction may be a final ...
... reader as well as his characters , and is constantly setting traps for him . At the end the elaborate , pretentious glittering struc- ture collapses into anti - climax and absurdity , in which the reader's dissatisfaction may be a final ...
Page 126
... reader when they are describing a social order . Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited , for instance , gives no sign of recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us , and what obsessional ...
... reader when they are describing a social order . Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited , for instance , gives no sign of recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us , and what obsessional ...
Page 195
... reader is still uncertain whether or not Santiago is justified in his suspicions ; the evidence is never quite conclusive . The novel's deliberately inconclusive , open- ended quality makes it seem both behind and ahead of its time ; it ...
... reader is still uncertain whether or not Santiago is justified in his suspicions ; the evidence is never quite conclusive . The novel's deliberately inconclusive , open- ended quality makes it seem both behind and ahead of its time ; it ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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