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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Character and Liberalism | 35 |
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