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As it stubbornly insists on affirming relations and conflicts between people, in
depicting characters and emotions, ... still take it for granted that the fundamental
purpose of the novel was the presentation of character: Let the reader recall the ...
As it stubbornly insists on affirming relations and conflicts between people, in
depicting characters and emotions, ... still take it for granted that the fundamental
purpose of the novel was the presentation of character: Let the reader recall the ...
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is much more on Proust or Joyce in their destructive or innovatory aspects, which
seem to make traditional ways of seeing character as an absolute no longer
conceivable. Lawrence's well-worn phrase 'You mustn't look in my novel for the
old ...
is much more on Proust or Joyce in their destructive or innovatory aspects, which
seem to make traditional ways of seeing character as an absolute no longer
conceivable. Lawrence's well-worn phrase 'You mustn't look in my novel for the
old ...
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John Bayley's significantly named The Characters of Love asserts that not only
should characters exist, but that their creators ... character would seem to-day
rather naïve, an old-fashioned response left over from the days of Dickens or
Surtees.
John Bayley's significantly named The Characters of Love asserts that not only
should characters exist, but that their creators ... character would seem to-day
rather naïve, an old-fashioned response left over from the days of Dickens or
Surtees.
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Situation of the Novel Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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