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Page 37
... aesthetic concept of the art of the novel that has been inherited virtually unchanged from Flaubert . ) In fact , the creators of character , in the traditional sense , can now do nothing more than present us with puppets in whom they ...
... aesthetic concept of the art of the novel that has been inherited virtually unchanged from Flaubert . ) In fact , the creators of character , in the traditional sense , can now do nothing more than present us with puppets in whom they ...
Page 48
... aesthetic . But the characters of her own fiction are opaque in ways that suggest primarily the limita- tions of their creator . Although Miss Murdoch has some striking literary gifts , she is largely lacking in the essential novelistic ...
... aesthetic . But the characters of her own fiction are opaque in ways that suggest primarily the limita- tions of their creator . Although Miss Murdoch has some striking literary gifts , she is largely lacking in the essential novelistic ...
Page 90
... aesthetic . There is a comparable division in 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 ...
... aesthetic . There is a comparable division in 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 ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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