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This state of mind has as its controlling centre an acknowledgment of the
plentitude, diversity and individuality of human beings in society, together with
the belief that such characteristics are good as ends in themselves. It delights in
the ...
This state of mind has as its controlling centre an acknowledgment of the
plentitude, diversity and individuality of human beings in society, together with
the belief that such characteristics are good as ends in themselves. It delights in
the ...
Page 53
He does, as Goode points out, indulge in a certain sleight of hand when he
insists on seeing liberalism as not 'a political view or even a mode of social and
economic organisation but rather a state of mind'; the connections between all
three ...
He does, as Goode points out, indulge in a certain sleight of hand when he
insists on seeing liberalism as not 'a political view or even a mode of social and
economic organisation but rather a state of mind'; the connections between all
three ...
Page 94
For all the attempted encyclopaedism of both The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles
Goat-Boy, both books are, essentially, about the diversity and unpredictability of
their author's mind, as Tony Tanner has shown in a perceptive and sympathetic ...
For all the attempted encyclopaedism of both The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles
Goat-Boy, both books are, essentially, about the diversity and unpredictability of
their author's mind, as Tony Tanner has shown in a perceptive and sympathetic ...
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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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