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Page 91
... possible field of discourse about the novel ; in practice most novelists and critics of the novel take up intermediate posi- tions along the spectrum ( for historical and cultural reasons most English writers will be closer to the ...
... possible field of discourse about the novel ; in practice most novelists and critics of the novel take up intermediate posi- tions along the spectrum ( for historical and cultural reasons most English writers will be closer to the ...
Page 162
... possible antecedent . ) * This critical perspective seems to me largely correct , although it needs a certain qualification . In the remarks about fiction scattered about his reviews and other critical writings - conveniently sum ...
... possible antecedent . ) * This critical perspective seems to me largely correct , although it needs a certain qualification . In the remarks about fiction scattered about his reviews and other critical writings - conveniently sum ...
Page 210
... possible redefinitions of the novel , in which , as I have suggested , the dis- tinction between fiction and other kinds of writing could become blurred . Yet all these novels depend for their effect on violating assumptions which have ...
... possible redefinitions of the novel , in which , as I have suggested , the dis- tinction between fiction and other kinds of writing could become blurred . Yet all these novels depend for their effect on violating assumptions which have ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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