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Page 64
Indeed, the complex kinds of traditional authority that Nature implies were
specifically disowned by the American idea and ... world is not the vehicle of
Nature, and it is this kind of novel which has become the dominant American
literary form.
Indeed, the complex kinds of traditional authority that Nature implies were
specifically disowned by the American idea and ... world is not the vehicle of
Nature, and it is this kind of novel which has become the dominant American
literary form.
Page 70
Hinde's conclusion points to a possibly fruitful association between the novelist
and the critic, of a kind that exists, though it is not particularly common, in the
United States, where many writers have some kind of academic connection, but
is ...
Hinde's conclusion points to a possibly fruitful association between the novelist
and the critic, of a kind that exists, though it is not particularly common, in the
United States, where many writers have some kind of academic connection, but
is ...
Page 126
Self-knowledge is withheld from us and therefore suspended in us; and a kind of
death, which Tolstoy is pitiless in revealing, occurs in a society whose members
are unable to examine their pretensions to be what they are. It is the society of ...
Self-knowledge is withheld from us and therefore suspended in us; and a kind of
death, which Tolstoy is pitiless in revealing, occurs in a society whose members
are unable to examine their pretensions to be what they are. It is the society of ...
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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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