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What is, perhaps, generally characteristic of the writers of the comic-apocalyptic
school is a degree of deliberate coolness that can very readily turn into an
inhuman coldness. It is this that distinguishes them from writers such as
Nathanael ...
What is, perhaps, generally characteristic of the writers of the comic-apocalyptic
school is a degree of deliberate coolness that can very readily turn into an
inhuman coldness. It is this that distinguishes them from writers such as
Nathanael ...
Page 104
In his early comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting anticipations of
the American comic-apocalyptic, or black comic, manner; indeed, the world war
at the end of Wile Bodies is a choice example of a global fictional apocalypse, ...
In his early comic novels Evelyn Waugh offered some interesting anticipations of
the American comic-apocalyptic, or black comic, manner; indeed, the world war
at the end of Wile Bodies is a choice example of a global fictional apocalypse, ...
Page 162
Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains, for me, a comic masterpiece, the funniest
English first novel since Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men appeared in 1931, and
a work that is surpassed only by the very best of Waugh and Powell. One would
like to ...
Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains, for me, a comic masterpiece, the funniest
English first novel since Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men appeared in 1931, and
a work that is surpassed only by the very best of Waugh and Powell. One would
like to ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
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| 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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