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Page 75
... regarded as fables , a kind of writing which has become increasingly popular with the decline or loss of stature of the conventional realistic novel . One thinks of the rise to popularity during the last twenty years of such English ...
... regarded as fables , a kind of writing which has become increasingly popular with the decline or loss of stature of the conventional realistic novel . One thinks of the rise to popularity during the last twenty years of such English ...
Page 100
Bernard Bergonzi. Lawrence regarded the mechanisation of humanity with rage and despair , whilst Pynchon sees it as a subject for cool , amused con- templation . My admiration for V. , though reluctant for the reasons I have indicated ...
Bernard Bergonzi. Lawrence regarded the mechanisation of humanity with rage and despair , whilst Pynchon sees it as a subject for cool , amused con- templation . My admiration for V. , though reluctant for the reasons I have indicated ...
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... regarded as wholly naturalistic , offer- ing an impeccable guide and gazetteer of the city of Dublin in the year 1904 , have been shown by Robert Martin Adams ( Surface and Symbol , 1962 ) to contain many wilful inaccuracies and ...
... regarded as wholly naturalistic , offer- ing an impeccable guide and gazetteer of the city of Dublin in the year 1904 , have been shown by Robert Martin Adams ( Surface and Symbol , 1962 ) to contain many wilful inaccuracies and ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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