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... absurdist fiction . In Terry Southern's Flash and Filigree there is a virtuoso piece of writing which describes how ... fiction relates to thrillers , comic strips and cheap science fiction in ways that make it a literary equivalent of ...
... absurdist fiction . In Terry Southern's Flash and Filigree there is a virtuoso piece of writing which describes how ... fiction relates to thrillers , comic strips and cheap science fiction in ways that make it a literary equivalent of ...
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... absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self ...
... absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing their own individual reality , in a self ...
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... novels , are now plunging into the comic - apocalyp- tic manner , which is of course temptingly easy to adopt , if one has ... absurdist fiction , like the - Smedley IV , in Blatty's John Goldfarb , Please Come 100 THE SITUATION OF THE NOVEL.
... novels , are now plunging into the comic - apocalyp- tic manner , which is of course temptingly easy to adopt , if one has ... absurdist fiction , like the - Smedley IV , in Blatty's John Goldfarb , Please Come 100 THE SITUATION OF THE NOVEL.
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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