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Page 69
... writing . ) American first novels do at least show signs of trying hard , of energy and invention . Here for instance is the opening of one such , the late Richard Farina's Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me : To Athené then ...
... writing . ) American first novels do at least show signs of trying hard , of energy and invention . Here for instance is the opening of one such , the late Richard Farina's Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me : To Athené then ...
Page 137
... writing a work of prolonged pastiche of a kind akin to Barth's , one's reading of his sequence would have to become spectacularly different . But that is not likely . In fact Snow's indifference to any conscious concern with literary ...
... writing a work of prolonged pastiche of a kind akin to Barth's , one's reading of his sequence would have to become spectacularly different . But that is not likely . In fact Snow's indifference to any conscious concern with literary ...
Page 196
... writer becomes a sort of enveloping character , himself in discussion with the reader . ' And The World of William Clissold , thin and preten- tious work though it is , can hardly be regarded as a piece of con- ventional novel - writing ...
... writer becomes a sort of enveloping character , himself in discussion with the reader . ' And The World of William Clissold , thin and preten- tious work though it is , can hardly be regarded as a piece of con- ventional novel - writing ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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