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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 spiritual ...
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 spiritual ...
Page 135
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 |
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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