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... reference . Robbe - Grillet shows a forceful tendency to throw out the baby with the bathwater , and it is not clear just how much meaning the word ' novel ' could legitimately claim if his demands were fully met . I shall return to ...
... reference . Robbe - Grillet shows a forceful tendency to throw out the baby with the bathwater , and it is not clear just how much meaning the word ' novel ' could legitimately claim if his demands were fully met . I shall return to ...
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... an explicitly religious frame of reference . The book is entertaining though ambiguous in its attempt to combine the ghost story and the moral fable . III So far in this chapter I have discussed two 174 THE SITUATION OF THE NOVEL.
... an explicitly religious frame of reference . The book is entertaining though ambiguous in its attempt to combine the ghost story and the moral fable . III So far in this chapter I have discussed two 174 THE SITUATION OF THE NOVEL.
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... , 1957. H. G. Wells , Experiment in Autobiography , Gol- lancz , 1934. Angus Wilson , The Old Men at the Zoo , Secker & Warburg , 1961 . Critical Essays in Modern Literature The Fiction and Criticism of References References.
... , 1957. H. G. Wells , Experiment in Autobiography , Gol- lancz , 1934. Angus Wilson , The Old Men at the Zoo , Secker & Warburg , 1961 . Critical Essays in Modern Literature The Fiction and Criticism of References References.
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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