The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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Page 10
... situation itself , and just as man was forced to learn more and more to act , first on the basis of external impressions of the situation and afterwards by structurally analysing it , just so we may regard it as the natural development ...
... situation itself , and just as man was forced to learn more and more to act , first on the basis of external impressions of the situation and afterwards by structurally analysing it , just so we may regard it as the natural development ...
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... situation ) . And , as John Bay- ley has said , it is the fiction of the Human Condition , of existential isolation and alienation , of efforts at self - definition and vain sisy- phean struggles , that for good historical reasons has ...
... situation ) . And , as John Bay- ley has said , it is the fiction of the Human Condition , of existential isolation and alienation , of efforts at self - definition and vain sisy- phean struggles , that for good historical reasons has ...
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... situation are generally available . Such books must , indeed , be fantastically difficult to write , and the attempt to combine direct personal experience and literary form is likely , if undertaken by inferior talents , to produce ...
... situation are generally available . Such books must , indeed , be fantastically difficult to write , and the attempt to combine direct personal experience and literary form is likely , if undertaken by inferior talents , to produce ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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