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Harry Levin has expressed it very well: “The novelist must feel a peculiar tension
between the words, conventions, and ideas that the masters of his Craft have
handed on to him and the facts, impressions, and experiences that life continues
to ...
Harry Levin has expressed it very well: “The novelist must feel a peculiar tension
between the words, conventions, and ideas that the masters of his Craft have
handed on to him and the facts, impressions, and experiences that life continues
to ...
Page 106
The title of A Handful of Dust comes, of course, from The Waste Land, and in both
Eliot's poem and Waugh's novel the characters have a similar inability to feel
deeply. At the end of the novel farce turns into horror, as we leave Tony Last ...
The title of A Handful of Dust comes, of course, from The Waste Land, and in both
Eliot's poem and Waugh's novel the characters have a similar inability to feel
deeply. At the end of the novel farce turns into horror, as we leave Tony Last ...
Page 212
... the concern with character and the feeling for dialogue of the practised novelist
; it also incorporates the essayist's interest in ideas and the expert reporter's
ability to catch the precise feel of fleeing events. The greater part of the book is
taken ...
... the concern with character and the feeling for dialogue of the practised novelist
; it also incorporates the essayist's interest in ideas and the expert reporter's
ability to catch the precise feel of fleeing events. The greater part of the book is
taken ...
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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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