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... Bayley's need to press home such dichotomies . He regards the great novelist - who is mostly though not exclusively Tolstoy - as marked by his total acceptance of and openness to life in all its aspects ; an acceptance which in some ...
... Bayley's need to press home such dichotomies . He regards the great novelist - who is mostly though not exclusively Tolstoy - as marked by his total acceptance of and openness to life in all its aspects ; an acceptance which in some ...
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... Bayley is a very much better critic than these stringent comments on his general stance might imply , but that stance seems to ... Bayley's dedication to a Tolstoyan openness to , and accep- tance of , experience is very attractive on an ...
... Bayley is a very much better critic than these stringent comments on his general stance might imply , but that stance seems to ... Bayley's dedication to a Tolstoyan openness to , and accep- tance of , experience is very attractive on an ...
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... Bayley's critical position ; I will , however , repeat that if I were going to use the phrase ' a dubious kind of detachment ' I would be far more inclined to apply it to Barth or Pynchon or Terry Southern than to Waugh or Powell . In ...
... Bayley's critical position ; I will , however , repeat that if I were going to use the phrase ' a dubious kind of detachment ' I would be far more inclined to apply it to Barth or Pynchon or Terry Southern than to Waugh or Powell . In ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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