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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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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 .
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... 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 , such as Don Quixote and Tom ...
... 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 , such as Don Quixote and Tom ...
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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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