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136-7) To recapitulate: John Bayley and John Barth represent opposed poles in
the possible field of discourse about the novel; in practice most novelists and
critics of the novel take up intermediate positions along the spectrum (for
historical ...
136-7) To recapitulate: John Bayley and John Barth represent opposed poles in
the possible field of discourse about the novel; in practice most novelists and
critics of the novel take up intermediate positions along the spectrum (for
historical ...
Page 210
By their shuffling of levels of reality, their reliance on collage and pastiche and
parody, they point to possible redefinitions of the novel, in which, as I have
suggested, the distinction between fiction and other kinds of writing could
become ...
By their shuffling of levels of reality, their reliance on collage and pastiche and
parody, they point to possible redefinitions of the novel, in which, as I have
suggested, the distinction between fiction and other kinds of writing could
become ...
Page 215
Again, most stories are written for publication in a limited number of possible
places; although their requirements may not be quite consciously in the author's
mind when he is writing, they will certainly exert their pressures somewhere
along ...
Again, most stories are written for publication in a limited number of possible
places; although their requirements may not be quite consciously in the author's
mind when he is writing, they will certainly exert their pressures somewhere
along ...
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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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