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Page 19
Herein lies the dilemma of the contemporary novelist; he has inherited a form
whose principal characteristic is novelty, or stylistic dynamism, and yet nearly
everything possible to be achieved has already been done. Nevertheless the
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Herein lies the dilemma of the contemporary novelist; he has inherited a form
whose principal characteristic is novelty, or stylistic dynamism, and yet nearly
everything possible to be achieved has already been done. Nevertheless the
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What is less welcome is the way in which much mediocre contemporary fiction
has been unconsciously generic, partly because of the narrowness of the
experience which the authors can put into it, but more importantly because of the
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What is less welcome is the way in which much mediocre contemporary fiction
has been unconsciously generic, partly because of the narrowness of the
experience which the authors can put into it, but more importantly because of the
...
Page 150
One need merely note in passing the book's remarkable insight into the varieties
of contemporary totalitarianism, whether exercised by direct political control, or
forms of media or thought control: in so far as western democratic societies have
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One need merely note in passing the book's remarkable insight into the varieties
of contemporary totalitarianism, whether exercised by direct political control, or
forms of media or thought control: in so far as western democratic societies have
...
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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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