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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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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 .
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Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited , for instance , gives no sign of recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us , and what obsessional anxieties it causes him .
Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited , for instance , gives no sign of recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us , and what obsessional anxieties it causes him .
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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