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Page 42
... relation between the individual and society , al- though intimate , is apt to be sharp and antagonistic : one thinks of Rastignac's apostrophe to Paris at the end of Père Goriot : ' It's war to the death between us now ' , which Robbe ...
... relation between the individual and society , al- though intimate , is apt to be sharp and antagonistic : one thinks of Rastignac's apostrophe to Paris at the end of Père Goriot : ' It's war to the death between us now ' , which Robbe ...
Page 63
... relation with other men ( the concept of ' society ' not being invented until the end of the eighteenth cen- tury ) , with his physical environment and with God . The relation is essentially a harmonious one , with a belief in norms and ...
... relation with other men ( the concept of ' society ' not being invented until the end of the eighteenth cen- tury ) , with his physical environment and with God . The relation is essentially a harmonious one , with a belief in norms and ...
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... relation between the word and the world . In autobiographical fiction , like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and A la recherche du temps perdu , we are forced to be aware of the relation , intimate yet severely distanced ...
... relation between the word and the world . In autobiographical fiction , like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and A la recherche du temps perdu , we are forced to be aware of the relation , intimate yet severely distanced ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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