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... fact the whole of Robbe - Grillet's programmatic enterprise of presenting a ' cleansed ' impersonal world of objects ... fact of giving a vast expanse of water the name of sea is equivalent to humanising it , for the fact of indicating ...
... fact the whole of Robbe - Grillet's programmatic enterprise of presenting a ' cleansed ' impersonal world of objects ... fact of giving a vast expanse of water the name of sea is equivalent to humanising it , for the fact of indicating ...
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... fact , strangely uncool , with an emotion that seems - in Eliot's phrase about Hamlet – in excess of the facts ; since the ' facts ' have always been both circumstantial and absurd . In this sequence Oedipa sees herself imprisoned in ...
... fact , strangely uncool , with an emotion that seems - in Eliot's phrase about Hamlet – in excess of the facts ; since the ' facts ' have always been both circumstantial and absurd . In this sequence Oedipa sees herself imprisoned in ...
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... facts , will inevitably distort his original evanescent experience . And this is to leave out of account the gap ... fact , is an art form which plays with illusion and reality just like the novel . ( New Statesman , 15 March 1968 ) ...
... facts , will inevitably distort his original evanescent experience . And this is to leave out of account the gap ... fact , is an art form which plays with illusion and reality just like the novel . ( New Statesman , 15 March 1968 ) ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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