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Page 105
... myth of the English Christian gentleman who is an inevitable victim of the modern world came increasingly to domi- nate Waugh's responses ; yet one of the qualities that , I think , made him a major novelist was an unexpected degree of ...
... myth of the English Christian gentleman who is an inevitable victim of the modern world came increasingly to domi- nate Waugh's responses ; yet one of the qualities that , I think , made him a major novelist was an unexpected degree of ...
Page 112
... myth - making , first evident in A Handful of Dust , becomes total and all - embracing . And reading Brideshead we have to think of the word ' myth ' not only in its larger positive sense , but also , such are Ryder's insufficiencies ...
... myth - making , first evident in A Handful of Dust , becomes total and all - embracing . And reading Brideshead we have to think of the word ' myth ' not only in its larger positive sense , but also , such are Ryder's insufficiencies ...
Page 117
... myth of much of Waugh's work is deflated . Reality is too ter- rible and too various to be accounted for by any simple myth , any easy pattern of heroics , no matter how splendid . Already we have seen Guy's devout and humble father ...
... myth of much of Waugh's work is deflated . Reality is too ter- rible and too various to be accounted for by any simple myth , any easy pattern of heroics , no matter how splendid . Already we have seen Guy's devout and humble father ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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