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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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 .
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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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