The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... seen as a mere numerical entity within the most terrifying collectives that the human race has ever known . He can be seen as existing not for himself alone but as part of something else , of a collective feel- ing , idea and organism ...
... seen as a mere numerical entity within the most terrifying collectives that the human race has ever known . He can be seen as existing not for himself alone but as part of something else , of a collective feel- ing , idea and organism ...
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... seen as products of a post - Newtonian model of the universe . Mar- shall McLuhan has shown ways in which the characteristic dis- continuities and associations of symbolist literature anticipated the patterns and responses imposed by an ...
... seen as products of a post - Newtonian model of the universe . Mar- shall McLuhan has shown ways in which the characteristic dis- continuities and associations of symbolist literature anticipated the patterns and responses imposed by an ...
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... seen as a giant wielding a spade . This runs counter to the common notion of Trollope- and such contemporaries as Thackeray and even George Eliot - as artistically imperfect because he involved himself too much in his own creation in ...
... seen as a giant wielding a spade . This runs counter to the common notion of Trollope- and such contemporaries as Thackeray and even George Eliot - as artistically imperfect because he involved himself too much in his own creation in ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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