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... interests of some formal irrelevance . Even so great a novelist as Proust is in- evitably limited , by tidying up life ... interest is the mark of the formalist . His intention is directed to fragments and sudden illuminations ; moments ...
... interests of some formal irrelevance . Even so great a novelist as Proust is in- evitably limited , by tidying up life ... interest is the mark of the formalist . His intention is directed to fragments and sudden illuminations ; moments ...
Page 153
... interest in the dilemmas of the self - flagellating Bernard Sands or the spiritually sluggish Gerald Middleton that Wilson so urgently invites . Nevertheless Anglo- Saxon Attitudes does offer the relaxed interest provided by a busily ...
... interest in the dilemmas of the self - flagellating Bernard Sands or the spiritually sluggish Gerald Middleton that Wilson so urgently invites . Nevertheless Anglo- Saxon Attitudes does offer the relaxed interest provided by a busily ...
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... interest seems to be sociological ' ( Tradition and Dream , 1964 : p . 298 ) . Yet part of the disturbing achievement of The Golden Notebook is to make the traditional distinction firmly understood , and so much part of the basic ...
... interest seems to be sociological ' ( Tradition and Dream , 1964 : p . 298 ) . Yet part of the disturbing achievement of The Golden Notebook is to make the traditional distinction firmly understood , and so much part of the basic ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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