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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 40
Over the decades the attempt to achieve a total impersonality , the desire to
abolish the traces of the human , has remained a major feature of
twentiethcentury art : we find the tendency to dehumanisation being deplored in
the twenties by a ...
Over the decades the attempt to achieve a total impersonality , the desire to
abolish the traces of the human , has remained a major feature of
twentiethcentury art : we find the tendency to dehumanisation being deplored in
the twenties by a ...
Page 41
The concepts of human interrelation , or organic community , which we now use
superficially or as moral clichés , would come to express concrete realities and
felt experience . Man would then pass , for the first time , from the closed sphere
of ...
The concepts of human interrelation , or organic community , which we now use
superficially or as moral clichés , would come to express concrete realities and
felt experience . Man would then pass , for the first time , from the closed sphere
of ...
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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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