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David Lodge has drawn particular attention to this state of affairs in his
entertaining novel The British Museum is Falling Down, in which the hero, a
graduate student of literature, constantly interprets his experience in terms of
literary parody.
David Lodge has drawn particular attention to this state of affairs in his
entertaining novel The British Museum is Falling Down, in which the hero, a
graduate student of literature, constantly interprets his experience in terms of
literary parody.
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English For just as life in England was teaching me what class meant as a
concrete condition, studying with Leavis was opening my eyes to the
particularism and historicity of literature — and, by extension, of culture in general
. The more I ...
English For just as life in England was teaching me what class meant as a
concrete condition, studying with Leavis was opening my eyes to the
particularism and historicity of literature — and, by extension, of culture in general
. The more I ...
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This concept of impersonality, memorably stated in Eliot's early essays, has
ramified in innumerable ways in modern literature and criticism; there is an early
version of it in the symbolist notion of the poem as an “aesthetic monad', and a
later, ...
This concept of impersonality, memorably stated in Eliot's early essays, has
ramified in innumerable ways in modern literature and criticism; there is an early
version of it in the symbolist notion of the poem as an “aesthetic monad', and a
later, ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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| 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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