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Page 119
... Powell's fictional method . There is , in the first place , his reliance on style as a mode of mediating experience ; this is not to say that he has sought after poetic effects or aesthetic concentration ; but Powell has relied , far ...
... Powell's fictional method . There is , in the first place , his reliance on style as a mode of mediating experience ; this is not to say that he has sought after poetic effects or aesthetic concentration ; but Powell has relied , far ...
Page 120
... Powell's other early novels it looks forward to The Music of Time . During the 1940s Powell published no more novels , but he wrote a life of John Aubrey and edited a selection from Aubrey's Brief Lives . The interest in Aubrey is ...
... Powell's other early novels it looks forward to The Music of Time . During the 1940s Powell published no more novels , but he wrote a life of John Aubrey and edited a selection from Aubrey's Brief Lives . The interest in Aubrey is ...
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... Powell . In fact Bayley's strictures seem to me applicable to Brideshead Revisited , but not to The Music of Time . The simple difference is that Powell's novel is , after all , a comedy , and the very essence of the comic is detachment ...
... Powell . In fact Bayley's strictures seem to me applicable to Brideshead Revisited , but not to The Music of Time . The simple difference is that Powell's novel is , after all , a comedy , and the very essence of the comic is detachment ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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