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... stylistic dynamism . This phrase may need clarification . The word ' stylistic ' might well arouse the sus- picions of English critics who see the novel as , above all , a source of moral health , and who regard any talk of ' style ' as ...
... stylistic dynamism . This phrase may need clarification . The word ' stylistic ' might well arouse the sus- picions of English critics who see the novel as , above all , a source of moral health , and who regard any talk of ' style ' as ...
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... stylistic dynamism , or steady formal change , has been one of the most noticeable characteristics of Western art , as it has of Western technology . Indeed , one contemporary aesthe- tician , the American Morse Peckham , has evolved a ...
... stylistic dynamism , or steady formal change , has been one of the most noticeable characteristics of Western art , as it has of Western technology . Indeed , one contemporary aesthe- tician , the American Morse Peckham , has evolved a ...
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... stylistic improvisations , including passages printed as letters , a television script , extracts from obscure early writers , and interpolated digressions by the author . If its manner is fairly dazzling , the matter tends to be thin ...
... stylistic improvisations , including passages printed as letters , a television script , extracts from obscure early writers , and interpolated digressions by the author . If its manner is fairly dazzling , the matter tends to be thin ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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