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... no matter how much the writer wants to dissolve conventional chronology , the use of flash - backs and time ... which has achieved a much greater freedom in the treatment of time , one which audiences accept as a matter of course .
... no matter how much the writer wants to dissolve conventional chronology , the use of flash - backs and time ... which has achieved a much greater freedom in the treatment of time , one which audiences accept as a matter of course .
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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