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Discussion of Defoe, for instance, constantly comes back to the question of how
far he was or was not an early exponent of true fictional realism. It can hardly be
denied that in a few decades the novel underwent an astonishing technical ...
Discussion of Defoe, for instance, constantly comes back to the question of how
far he was or was not an early exponent of true fictional realism. It can hardly be
denied that in a few decades the novel underwent an astonishing technical ...
Page 162
There are also those who claim that Amis is not worth anyone's serious attention,
that Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce, and at best no more than a
faded relic of the taste of the early fifties. Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains, for me,
...
There are also those who claim that Amis is not worth anyone's serious attention,
that Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce, and at best no more than a
faded relic of the taste of the early fifties. Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains, for me,
...
Page 189
... of the form and its power to convey reality, even if this is not accompanied by
the epistemological scepticism about the nature of common experience that
provides the raison d'être of a writer such as Robbe-Grillet. It is the great early
novels, ...
... of the form and its power to convey reality, even if this is not accompanied by
the epistemological scepticism about the nature of common experience that
provides the raison d'être of a writer such as Robbe-Grillet. It is the great early
novels, ...
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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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