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strictly American sense (it is certainly true that a large segment of the American
middle class have literally everything they want in life, and have given up the
teleological struggle for far-off material goals). He ignores the fact that, taking a
global ...
strictly American sense (it is certainly true that a large segment of the American
middle class have literally everything they want in life, and have given up the
teleological struggle for far-off material goals). He ignores the fact that, taking a
global ...
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Looked at from inside, the society, and its culture and literature, can seem a
happy enclave of tradition and liberalism, a living fragment of the nineteenth
century, which, given a minimum amount of intelligent adjustment, might go on
existing ...
Looked at from inside, the society, and its culture and literature, can seem a
happy enclave of tradition and liberalism, a living fragment of the nineteenth
century, which, given a minimum amount of intelligent adjustment, might go on
existing ...
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It can even be regarded as a natural process like breathing, in which no
conscious thought need be given to questions of style or construction. Irving
Howe has summed this difference up very well. After stressing that 'the very best
American ...
It can even be regarded as a natural process like breathing, in which no
conscious thought need be given to questions of style or construction. Irving
Howe has summed this difference up very well. After stressing that 'the very best
American ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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| 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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