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Page 71
... fiction were total and unchallenged . Perhaps it was at the Ameri- can university where Mr Jacobson was teaching ; nevertheless , dur- ing the last ten years there has been a general acceptance in the academic criticism of fiction of ...
... fiction were total and unchallenged . Perhaps it was at the Ameri- can university where Mr Jacobson was teaching ; nevertheless , dur- ing the last ten years there has been a general acceptance in the academic criticism of fiction of ...
Page 197
... fictional activites , can also refer to the great Modernist innovations in twentieth - century fiction , which realigned the traditional fixed relation between the word and the world . In autobiographical fiction , like A Portrait of ...
... fictional activites , can also refer to the great Modernist innovations in twentieth - century fiction , which realigned the traditional fixed relation between the word and the world . In autobiographical fiction , like A Portrait of ...
Page 207
... fiction and autobiography . ) Trawl is a more sober and more limited work than Johnson's two previous novels ... fiction . Johnson has asserted that he is not at all interested in ' invention ' or ' imagination ' , nor indeed in ...
... fiction and autobiography . ) Trawl is a more sober and more limited work than Johnson's two previous novels ... fiction . Johnson has asserted that he is not at all interested in ' invention ' or ' imagination ' , nor indeed in ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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