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... regarded as the supreme good ; is there not something absurd about rational adults demanding larger and larger doses of excitement from art and literature ? My guests were unable to give me a satisfying answer , since it is uncommonly ...
... regarded as the supreme good ; is there not something absurd about rational adults demanding larger and larger doses of excitement from art and literature ? My guests were unable to give me a satisfying answer , since it is uncommonly ...
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... regarded as fables , a kind of writing which has become increasingly popular with the decline or loss of stature of the conventional realistic novel . One thinks of the rise to popularity during the last twenty years of such English ...
... regarded as fables , a kind of writing which has become increasingly popular with the decline or loss of stature of the conventional realistic novel . One thinks of the rise to popularity during the last twenty years of such English ...
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... * Much of this was anticipated by Marshall McLuhan in the title essay of The Mechanical Bride , first published in 1951 . Lawrence regarded the mechanisation of humanity with rage and despair AMERICA : THE INCREDIBLE REALITY 99.
... * Much of this was anticipated by Marshall McLuhan in the title essay of The Mechanical Bride , first published in 1951 . Lawrence regarded the mechanisation of humanity with rage and despair AMERICA : THE INCREDIBLE REALITY 99.
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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