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If one believes that the novel offers unique possibilities for the enlargement of
consciousness and the intensification of being , then one will resist treating it as a
particular kind of literary pigeon - hole , no matter how capacious , and will see
the ...
If one believes that the novel offers unique possibilities for the enlargement of
consciousness and the intensification of being , then one will resist treating it as a
particular kind of literary pigeon - hole , no matter how capacious , and will see
the ...
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reasons dismiss the work of admired English writers such as , say , Philip Larkin
or Angus Wilson , which they regard as preserving an obsolete strain of middle -
class social and literary values , and turn instead to American writing , to find ...
reasons dismiss the work of admired English writers such as , say , Philip Larkin
or Angus Wilson , which they regard as preserving an obsolete strain of middle -
class social and literary values , and turn instead to American writing , to find ...
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Yet on considering Snow himself as a literary figure one is struck by the immense
disparity between what he says and what he does . In fact Snow's belief in the
humanistic , melioristic , progressive qualities of scientific culture has become ...
Yet on considering Snow himself as a literary figure one is struck by the immense
disparity between what he says and what he does . In fact Snow's belief in the
humanistic , melioristic , progressive qualities of scientific culture has become ...
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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