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Page 127
His habitual stance, as I have remarked, is not that of the judge or moralist, nor of
the laudator temporis acti, but that of a cool but kindly anthropological observer.
Because of his lack of mythic or obsessive preoccupations, Powell's fiction is ...
His habitual stance, as I have remarked, is not that of the judge or moralist, nor of
the laudator temporis acti, but that of a cool but kindly anthropological observer.
Because of his lack of mythic or obsessive preoccupations, Powell's fiction is ...
Page 140
In the other novels, apart from the most recent, The Sleep of Reason, Eliot is not
at the centre of affairs but is, to a greater or lesser extent, an observer of other
people. And here Snow falls foul of the danger that the 'camera eye' method of ...
In the other novels, apart from the most recent, The Sleep of Reason, Eliot is not
at the centre of affairs but is, to a greater or lesser extent, an observer of other
people. And here Snow falls foul of the danger that the 'camera eye' method of ...
Page 169
And so on, with a detailed account of everything in the photograph, implicitly
emphasising its total detachment from the observer. We can compare it with a
passage from Lucky Jim. Jim Dixon is having breakfast in his digs, and is joined
by his ...
And so on, with a detailed account of everything in the photograph, implicitly
emphasising its total detachment from the observer. We can compare it with a
passage from Lucky Jim. Jim Dixon is having breakfast in his digs, and is joined
by his ...
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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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