The Situation of the Novel |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 36
Page 76
... imaginative entity . I will conclude this chapter with an account of another recent English novel , an equally complex ... imagination back to the public world of shared human ex- perience . I am referring to Andrew Sinclair's Gog ...
... imaginative entity . I will conclude this chapter with an account of another recent English novel , an equally complex ... imagination back to the public world of shared human ex- perience . I am referring to Andrew Sinclair's Gog ...
Page 178
... imagination and the secret fears of their readers . The only answer is to create an equally convincing projection of the future in optimistic or truly utopian terms ; and this , because of the inevitable biases of the human imagination ...
... imagination and the secret fears of their readers . The only answer is to create an equally convincing projection of the future in optimistic or truly utopian terms ; and this , because of the inevitable biases of the human imagination ...
Page 207
... imagination ' , nor indeed in ' fiction ' , in so far as it involves these qualities : I'm certainly not interested in the slightest in writing fiction . Where the difficulty comes in is that ' novel ' and ' fiction ' are not synonymous ...
... imagination ' , nor indeed in ' fiction ' , in so far as it involves these qualities : I'm certainly not interested in the slightest in writing fiction . Where the difficulty comes in is that ' novel ' and ' fiction ' are not synonymous ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absurdist fiction achievement admired aesthetic Afternoon Men American fiction Amis Amis's Anti-Death League attitudes Barth Bayley's become Brideshead Brideshead Revisited British Burgess C. P. Snow called certainly chapter character comic consciousness contemporary critical Crouchback cultural deal described discussion early Eliot England English ideology English novel English novelists essay experience fact feel genre Giles Goat-Boy Golden Notebook hero Human Condition ideas identity imagination inevitably instance interest Iris Murdoch John Barth John Bayley Joyce kind liberal literary literature looking Lucky Jim Marxist matter modern Music myth narrative narrator Nevertheless nineteenth-century perhaps personality possible Powell Powell's Proust published Pynchon R. W. B. Lewis reader realistic reality remarked Robbe-Grillet seems sense short story shows Snow Snow's social society Strangers and Brothers stylistic Swim-Two-Birds Sword of Honour things tion totalitarian traditional twentieth century verbal Waugh Widmerpool Wilson words writing young