The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... verbal skill and inventiveness and not much experience of life . Like Barth , Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still ...
... verbal skill and inventiveness and not much experience of life . Like Barth , Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still ...
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... verbal style in the sequence , even while disapproving of it ; he writes that Powell is ' chronicling not so much events as the subtle ironies these might suggest to someone who had studied all the dossiers exhaustively . It is at times ...
... verbal style in the sequence , even while disapproving of it ; he writes that Powell is ' chronicling not so much events as the subtle ironies these might suggest to someone who had studied all the dossiers exhaustively . It is at times ...
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... verbal autonomy , and ' Montaigne ' the literary persona remains distinct from the real Montaigne . The short answer to this is that the real Montaigne remains for ever unknowable , except to God ; any attempt to render the self in verbal ...
... verbal autonomy , and ' Montaigne ' the literary persona remains distinct from the real Montaigne . The short answer to this is that the real Montaigne remains for ever unknowable , except to God ; any attempt to render the self in verbal ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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