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... this is an important moment of understanding and seems to lie at the core of the second part of the problem of the writer at the university : the effect his students and his teaching will have on himself and his own work .
... this is an important moment of understanding and seems to lie at the core of the second part of the problem of the writer at the university : the effect his students and his teaching will have on himself and his own work .
Page 128
His reliance on anecdote rather than theme can produce a random , even disorientating effect . Yet to be untheoretical and anecdotal is very much part of what I call the English ideology , and The Music of Time is not wholly free from ...
His reliance on anecdote rather than theme can produce a random , even disorientating effect . Yet to be untheoretical and anecdotal is very much part of what I call the English ideology , and The Music of Time is not wholly free from ...
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John Gross has remarked on the way in which many of Amis's comic effects originate in his linguistic finesse rather than in the comedy of situation . Throughout his novels there is a steady preoccupation with language ; we see it in ...
John Gross has remarked on the way in which many of Amis's comic effects originate in his linguistic finesse rather than in the comedy of situation . Throughout his novels there is a steady preoccupation with language ; we see it in ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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