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Thus the three examples I have just described might more briefly be summed up
in this fashion: (1) Lightly written tale of nice young adman with scruples. He
overcomes them, sleeps with the boss's wife, but marries the girl from back home.
Thus the three examples I have just described might more briefly be summed up
in this fashion: (1) Lightly written tale of nice young adman with scruples. He
overcomes them, sleeps with the boss's wife, but marries the girl from back home.
Page 159
... positive sense described by D. W. Harding: It can be said in general that
complete absence of nostalgia in a modern writer is suspect, suggesting
complacent fellowship with the main commercial group, or seclusion with an
academic group, ...
... positive sense described by D. W. Harding: It can be said in general that
complete absence of nostalgia in a modern writer is suspect, suggesting
complacent fellowship with the main commercial group, or seclusion with an
academic group, ...
Page 213
Yet I shall resist concluding on a note of prediction; most prophecies are false,
which is one reassurance that history can offer us, since most prophecies are
also gloomy. Beyond that, I feel too much a part of the situation I have described
to be ...
Yet I shall resist concluding on a note of prediction; most prophecies are false,
which is one reassurance that history can offer us, since most prophecies are
also gloomy. Beyond that, I feel too much a part of the situation I have described
to be ...
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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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