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... continues to offer ' ( The Gates of Horn , 1967 : p . 137 ) . The tension is always present : in the nineteenth - century masters , we may say , the pull was most strongly towards life ; in the eighteenth - century novel , and again in ...
... continues to offer ' ( The Gates of Horn , 1967 : p . 137 ) . The tension is always present : in the nineteenth - century masters , we may say , the pull was most strongly towards life ; in the eighteenth - century novel , and again in ...
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... continues his argument , peering ahead into the collective human future desiderated by the Marxists : Our present notion of autonomous identity may be the result of a long , painful process of psychic individuation , of withdrawal from ...
... continues his argument , peering ahead into the collective human future desiderated by the Marxists : Our present notion of autonomous identity may be the result of a long , painful process of psychic individuation , of withdrawal from ...
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... continues its firm if despairing protest in a totally barren environment ; the other by stripping away all attributes save the perceiving eye , which is , perhaps , another name for the camera lens . Pynchon and Barth deal with the ...
... continues its firm if despairing protest in a totally barren environment ; the other by stripping away all attributes save the perceiving eye , which is , perhaps , another name for the camera lens . Pynchon and Barth deal with the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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