The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 37
... seems to us to be identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families . The world itself is no longer this private property , hereditary and profitable a sort of prey to be conquered rather than understood . To have a name ...
... seems to us to be identified with the rise or fall of a few men or a few families . The world itself is no longer this private property , hereditary and profitable a sort of prey to be conquered rather than understood . To have a name ...
Page 94
... seems in a vast comic strip , full of the denizens of the huge university that Barth has constructed as his alternative to the real world . The novel is , among many other things , the campus novel to end all , and may even mark the end ...
... seems in a vast comic strip , full of the denizens of the huge university that Barth has constructed as his alternative to the real world . The novel is , among many other things , the campus novel to end all , and may even mark the end ...
Page 218
... seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than Herlihy or Bowles , and certainly than Miss Bingham , who is very competent , but who relies heavily on the short - story formula to compensate for the thinness of her material . At ...
... seems to me to have a good deal more to offer than Herlihy or Bowles , and certainly than Miss Bingham , who is very competent , but who relies heavily on the short - story formula to compensate for the thinness of her material . At ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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