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communities , instead of fitting into the larger family unit , as in the past . This
situation was explored in a brilliant novel by Muriel Spark , Memento Mori , which
showed a sensitive yet witty awareness of the predicament of old people and
struck ...
communities , instead of fitting into the larger family unit , as in the past . This
situation was explored in a brilliant novel by Muriel Spark , Memento Mori , which
showed a sensitive yet witty awareness of the predicament of old people and
struck ...
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Alain Robbe - Grillet makes a similar demand for a total break with the past ,
although he implies that the nouveau roman has satisfactorily made such a break
. He dismisses out of hand all the traditional attributes of the novel – characters ...
Alain Robbe - Grillet makes a similar demand for a total break with the past ,
although he implies that the nouveau roman has satisfactorily made such a break
. He dismisses out of hand all the traditional attributes of the novel – characters ...
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( BBC recording 1967 : Novelists of the Sixties " ) What prevents Gog from being
merely a pleasant fictional travelogue is the almost obsessive quality of Sinclair's
concern for the English past , and his feeling for myth , which he sees as ...
( BBC recording 1967 : Novelists of the Sixties " ) What prevents Gog from being
merely a pleasant fictional travelogue is the almost obsessive quality of Sinclair's
concern for the English past , and his feeling for myth , which he sees as ...
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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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