The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... recent fiction , there is a pronounced pull towards an awareness of craft and convention . At the one extreme we have Tolstoy , who seems to offer not art , but the very substance of life itself , as John Bayley enthusiastically reminds ...
... recent fiction , there is a pronounced pull towards an awareness of craft and convention . At the one extreme we have Tolstoy , who seems to offer not art , but the very substance of life itself , as John Bayley enthusiastically reminds ...
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... recent essay ( ' British Marxists and American Freudians ' , in Innova- tions , ed . Bergonzi ) ; he contrasts the stress on the value of ' simple ordinary community life ' that we find in Lawrence or Raymond Williams , with Sartre's ...
... recent essay ( ' British Marxists and American Freudians ' , in Innova- tions , ed . Bergonzi ) ; he contrasts the stress on the value of ' simple ordinary community life ' that we find in Lawrence or Raymond Williams , with Sartre's ...
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... recent novels . I shall return to this question in the final chapter . I shall conclude this discussion of the the English ideology by looking at some particular novels . That there is a crisis in the Eng- lish sense of cultural ...
... recent novels . I shall return to this question in the final chapter . I shall conclude this discussion of the the English ideology by looking at some particular novels . That there is a crisis in the Eng- lish sense of cultural ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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