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... literary convention generally . 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 parti- cular kind of literary ...
... literary convention generally . 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 parti- cular kind of literary ...
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... literary values , and turn instead to American writing , to find spiritual refreshment in Faulkner or Charles Olson ... literary . The question is ultimately sociological , or even anthropological . For a long time the Americans have ...
... literary values , and turn instead to American writing , to find spiritual refreshment in Faulkner or Charles Olson ... literary . The question is ultimately sociological , or even anthropological . For a long time the Americans have ...
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... 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 blended in the most singular ...
... 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 blended in the most singular ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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