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Page 67
... American cultural chauvinism has , it must be admitted , been remarkably successful in imposing on English universities Depart- ments of American Studies , of a thoroughly divisive kind , where American literature is separated from ...
... American cultural chauvinism has , it must be admitted , been remarkably successful in imposing on English universities Depart- ments of American Studies , of a thoroughly divisive kind , where American literature is separated from ...
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... fiction may not , in fact , be as limited as hostile critics such as Mr West allege , but some acquaintance with recent American work can help one to understand why such judgements are so often made , and not only by Americans ...
... fiction may not , in fact , be as limited as hostile critics such as Mr West allege , but some acquaintance with recent American work can help one to understand why such judgements are so often made , and not only by Americans ...
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... American life - especially in the American life of forty years ago , the effect of which upon an English or French imagination , would probably as a general thing be appalling . Richard Poirier has glossed this passage by remarking that ...
... American life - especially in the American life of forty years ago , the effect of which upon an English or French imagination , would probably as a general thing be appalling . Richard Poirier has glossed this passage by remarking that ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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