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Page 28
... matter how much the writer wants to dissolve conventional chronology , the use of flash - backs and time - shifts seems to go against the grain of the medium . There is often resistance by the reader , which may not be entirely due to ...
... matter how much the writer wants to dissolve conventional chronology , the use of flash - backs and time - shifts seems to go against the grain of the medium . There is often resistance by the reader , which may not be entirely due to ...
Page 95
... 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 from the girl born without a nose ...
... 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 from the girl born without a nose ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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