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As it stubbornly insists on affirming relations and conflicts between people , in
depicting characters and emotions , on ... it for granted that the fundamental
purpose of the novel was the presentation of character : Let the reader recall the
great ...
As it stubbornly insists on affirming relations and conflicts between people , in
depicting characters and emotions , on ... it for granted that the fundamental
purpose of the novel was the presentation of character : Let the reader recall the
great ...
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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
...
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
...
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John Bayley's significantly named The Characters of Love asserts that not only
should characters exist , but that their ... 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 ... 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 |
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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