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Page 39
In fact the whole of Robbe-Grillet's programmatic enterprise — of presenting a “
cleansed' impersonal world of objects, which can be set over against human
activity, with the aim of reducing man's domineering place in the universe — is
shaky.
In fact the whole of Robbe-Grillet's programmatic enterprise — of presenting a “
cleansed' impersonal world of objects, which can be set over against human
activity, with the aim of reducing man's domineering place in the universe — is
shaky.
Page 100
The tone becomes, in fact, strangely uncool, with an emotion that seems – in
Eliot's phrase about Hamlet — in excess of the facts; since the 'facts' have always
been both circumstantial and absurd. In this sequence Oedipa sees herself ...
The tone becomes, in fact, strangely uncool, with an emotion that seems – in
Eliot's phrase about Hamlet — in excess of the facts; since the 'facts' have always
been both circumstantial and absurd. In this sequence Oedipa sees herself ...
Page 182
In Language Made Plain he admits that the apparent Americanism 'I guess' is in
fact an old English form that can be found in Chaucer: But, like most of us, I do not
really like submitting to reason: I much prefer blind prejudice. And so I stoutly ...
In Language Made Plain he admits that the apparent Americanism 'I guess' is in
fact an old English form that can be found in Chaucer: But, like most of us, I do not
really like submitting to reason: I much prefer blind prejudice. And so I stoutly ...
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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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