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Page 58
Leonard Meyer writes : The most deep - seated beliefs , attitudes , and dispositions which form the fundamental basis of an ideology are not as a rule rationally arrived at , nor are they usually consciously held .
Leonard Meyer writes : The most deep - seated beliefs , attitudes , and dispositions which form the fundamental basis of an ideology are not as a rule rationally arrived at , nor are they usually consciously held .
Page 59
This consciousness heavily stresses certain private virtues , such as inner strength and integrity : Alan Sillitoe's Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a striking embodiment of these attitudes . Holloway illustrates his argument ...
This consciousness heavily stresses certain private virtues , such as inner strength and integrity : Alan Sillitoe's Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a striking embodiment of these attitudes . Holloway illustrates his argument ...
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There is not , perhaps , anything particularly English about such a set of attitudes : critics such as Leslie Fiedler and R. W. B. Lewis have shown how American fiction tends to alternate between nostalgia for a vanished childhood or ...
There is not , perhaps , anything particularly English about such a set of attitudes : critics such as Leslie Fiedler and R. W. B. Lewis have shown how American fiction tends to alternate between nostalgia for a vanished childhood or ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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