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Page 17
... aesthetic merit when we are dealing with the other arts . We may , for instance , admit that Raphael was technically better equipped than Giotto without in any way implying that he was the greater artist . Yet it is , I think ...
... aesthetic merit when we are dealing with the other arts . We may , for instance , admit that Raphael was technically better equipped than Giotto without in any way implying that he was the greater artist . Yet it is , I think ...
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... aesthetic questions hovering round this problem , which I am reluc- tant to raise , but the novel does seem to me different from music or poetry in certain essential respects . The score or the printed poem do undoubtedly exist as ...
... aesthetic questions hovering round this problem , which I am reluc- tant to raise , but the novel does seem to me different from music or poetry in certain essential respects . The score or the printed poem do undoubtedly exist as ...
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... aesthetic . There is a comparable division in absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing ...
... aesthetic . There is a comparable division in absurdist fiction , between the writers of whom one can posit some kind of relationship to American reality , or reality in general , and those who are much more concerned with establishing ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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