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The tension is always present: in the nineteenth-century masters, we may say,
the pull was most strongly towards life; in the eighteenth-century novel, and again
in recent fiction, there is a pronounced pull towards an awareness of craft and ...
The tension is always present: in the nineteenth-century masters, we may say,
the pull was most strongly towards life; in the eighteenth-century novel, and again
in recent fiction, there is a pronounced pull towards an awareness of craft and ...
Page 42
Martin Green has illuminatingly discussed this division in a recent essay ('British
Marxists and American Freudians', in Innovations, ed. Bergonzi); he contrasts the
stress on the value of 'simple ordinary community life' that we find in Lawrence ...
Martin Green has illuminatingly discussed this division in a recent essay ('British
Marxists and American Freudians', in Innovations, ed. Bergonzi); he contrasts the
stress on the value of 'simple ordinary community life' that we find in Lawrence ...
Page 214
This seems to me a shrewd remark, and one borne out by several recent
collections of short stories by American writers: Meyer Liben's Justice Hunger;
James Leo Herlihy's A Story that Ends with a Scream; Sallie Bingham's The
Touching ...
This seems to me a shrewd remark, and one borne out by several recent
collections of short stories by American writers: Meyer Liben's Justice Hunger;
James Leo Herlihy's A Story that Ends with a Scream; Sallie Bingham's The
Touching ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
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| 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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