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... verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred : the novelist , who must use words with meanings , cannot construct a self - contained aesthetic monad , or write as an activity of pure style ...
... verbal universe . The latter is the second and opposed impulse to which I have referred : the novelist , who must use words with meanings , cannot construct a self - contained aesthetic monad , or write as an activity of pure style ...
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... verbal skill and inventiveness and not much experience of life . Like Barth , Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still ...
... verbal skill and inventiveness and not much experience of life . Like Barth , Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still ...
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... verbal skill and a degree of ingenuity that one does not find in most of their English con- temporaries . They approach the problems of writing fiction with an intense , probing consciousness , and their solutions are both very modern ...
... verbal skill and a degree of ingenuity that one does not find in most of their English con- temporaries . They approach the problems of writing fiction with an intense , probing consciousness , and their solutions are both very modern ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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