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Page 28
Yet the fact that so many different attempts are made suggests that there is a
degree of intractability in the problem; no matter how much the writer wants to
dissolve conventional chronology, the use of flash-backs and time-shifts seems to
go ...
Yet the fact that so many different attempts are made suggests that there is a
degree of intractability in the problem; no matter how much the writer wants to
dissolve conventional chronology, the use of flash-backs and time-shifts seems to
go ...
Page 95
The distinction is apparent in tone, even where the subject matter is similar. Thus,
there is a recurrent preoccupation with deformity in West's writing, which is
horrifyingly apparent in one of the pitiful letters sent to Miss Lonelyhearts, like the
one ...
The distinction is apparent in tone, even where the subject matter is similar. Thus,
there is a recurrent preoccupation with deformity in West's writing, which is
horrifyingly apparent in one of the pitiful letters sent to Miss Lonelyhearts, like the
one ...
Page 160
No Laughing Matter is a defiantly traditional generations-novel, with a bustling
variety of characters and a great deal of exuberant interplay between them. At the
same time Wilson's prose is richer and more relaxed than in his early novels, and
...
No Laughing Matter is a defiantly traditional generations-novel, with a bustling
variety of characters and a great deal of exuberant interplay between them. At the
same time Wilson's prose is richer and more relaxed than in his early novels, and
...
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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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