The Situation of the Novel |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 50
... liberal values , Harvey acknowledged , in a crucial passage , that such values may be on the wane : It may well be , of course , that we are moving towards a form of society where such a state of mind is no longer viable , that liberalism ...
... liberal values , Harvey acknowledged , in a crucial passage , that such values may be on the wane : It may well be , of course , that we are moving towards a form of society where such a state of mind is no longer viable , that liberalism ...
Page 51
... liberal and individualis- tic virtues so marvellously preserved and crystallised in the traditional novel are , indeed , on the retreat over a large part of the globe , and have been continuously on the defensive ever since 1914 . There ...
... liberal and individualis- tic virtues so marvellously preserved and crystallised in the traditional novel are , indeed , on the retreat over a large part of the globe , and have been continuously on the defensive ever since 1914 . There ...
Page 53
... liberalism that pervades the novel as an ' ideology ' , providing that one does not take this to mean that liberal values are thereby auto- matically dismissed as illusory . The value of Marxist criticism is in letting us see that many ...
... liberalism that pervades the novel as an ' ideology ' , providing that one does not take this to mean that liberal values are thereby auto- matically dismissed as illusory . The value of Marxist criticism is in letting us see that many ...
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