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... imaginative entity . I will conclude this chapter with an account of another recent English novel , an equally complex ... imagination back to the public world of shared human ex- perience . I am referring to Andrew Sinclair's Gog ...
... imaginative entity . I will conclude this chapter with an account of another recent English novel , an equally complex ... imagination back to the public world of shared human ex- perience . I am referring to Andrew Sinclair's Gog ...
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... imagination , would probably as a general thing be appalling . Richard Poirier has glossed this passage by remarking that nine- teenth - century American novelists made determined efforts to evade even the slight amount of social ...
... imagination , would probably as a general thing be appalling . Richard Poirier has glossed this passage by remarking that nine- teenth - century American novelists made determined efforts to evade even the slight amount of social ...
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... imagination and the secret fears of their readers . The only answer is to create an equally convincing projection of the future in optimistic or truly utopian terms ; and this , because of the inevitable biases of the human imagination ...
... imagination and the secret fears of their readers . The only answer is to create an equally convincing projection of the future in optimistic or truly utopian terms ; and this , because of the inevitable biases of the human imagination ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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