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Indeed , the complex kinds of traditional authority that Nature implies were specifically disowned by the American ... 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 ... is not the vehicle of Nature , and it is this kind of novel which has become the dominant American literary form .
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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 .
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 .
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... in which , as I have suggested , the distinction between fiction and other kinds of writing could become blurred . ... shattering of the narrative surface , they provide plentiful shocks and surprises , often of a comic kind .
... in which , as I have suggested , the distinction between fiction and other kinds of writing could become blurred . ... shattering of the narrative surface , they provide plentiful shocks and surprises , often of a comic kind .
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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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