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Page 18
... realistic novel , where the minute investigation of human behaviour in all its aspects - physical , psychological and moral - is taken as far as it can go , while remaining within the bounds of coherence . Attempts to force the ...
... realistic novel , where the minute investigation of human behaviour in all its aspects - physical , psychological and moral - is taken as far as it can go , while remaining within the bounds of coherence . Attempts to force the ...
Page 42
... Realism and the Contemporary Novel ' . On the Continent it seems to be assumed that the realistic novel of character has had its day ; while American critics are agreed that it has never properly flourished in the United States . But in ...
... Realism and the Contemporary Novel ' . On the Continent it seems to be assumed that the realistic novel of character has had its day ; while American critics are agreed that it has never properly flourished in the United States . But in ...
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... realism . ( There is a convenient summary of Snow's critical ideas in Rubin Rabinovitz's The Reaction against ... realistic tradition : Snow's reading of Proust is different from that of John Bayley , and different , too , from ...
... realism . ( There is a convenient summary of Snow's critical ideas in Rubin Rabinovitz's The Reaction against ... realistic tradition : Snow's reading of Proust is different from that of John Bayley , and different , too , from ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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