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s husband, who is the narrator. And although Robbe-Grillet radically rearranges
the time-sequence, and totally dissolves conventional narration – in ways that
owe an immense amount to the methods of the cinema — the story moves
forward ...
s husband, who is the narrator. And although Robbe-Grillet radically rearranges
the time-sequence, and totally dissolves conventional narration – in ways that
owe an immense amount to the methods of the cinema — the story moves
forward ...
Page 71
Jacobson argues, very plausibly, for a return of the author as narrator and
commentator, with a right to let his own voice be heard, and for a restored place
for “telling' as well as 'showing' in fictional narrative. Yet it is surprising that
Jacobson ...
Jacobson argues, very plausibly, for a return of the author as narrator and
commentator, with a right to let his own voice be heard, and for a restored place
for “telling' as well as 'showing' in fictional narrative. Yet it is surprising that
Jacobson ...
Page 126
Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited, for instance, gives no #" of
recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us,
and what obsessional anxieties it causes him. Self-knowledge is withheld from us
...
Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited, for instance, gives no #" of
recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us,
and what obsessional anxieties it causes him. Self-knowledge is withheld from us
...
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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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