The Situation of the Novel |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 18
Page 62
... regarded as the supreme good ; is there not something absurd about rational adults demanding larger and larger doses of excitement from art and literature ? My guests were unable to give me a satisfying answer , since it is uncommonly ...
... regarded as the supreme good ; is there not something absurd about rational adults demanding larger and larger doses of excitement from art and literature ? My guests were unable to give me a satisfying answer , since it is uncommonly ...
Page 159
... regarded as , at best , an evasion of human res- ponsibility ; but in Late Call Sylvia's response seems to suggest that it might be a touchstone for various kinds of contemporary insin- cerity . In so far as Sylvia is the embodiment of ...
... regarded as , at best , an evasion of human res- ponsibility ; but in Late Call Sylvia's response seems to suggest that it might be a touchstone for various kinds of contemporary insin- cerity . In so far as Sylvia is the embodiment of ...
Page 164
... regarded as a matter for suspicion : Jim Dixon has no commit- ment to the history he is supposed to teach , and he loathes Professor Welch's bogus attempts to revive the past by means of handicrafts and madrigal singing . Indeed , when ...
... regarded as a matter for suspicion : Jim Dixon has no commit- ment to the history he is supposed to teach , and he loathes Professor Welch's bogus attempts to revive the past by means of handicrafts and madrigal singing . Indeed , when ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absurdist fiction achievement admired aesthetic Afternoon Men American fiction Amis Amis's Anti-Death League attitudes Barth Bayley's become Brideshead Brideshead Revisited British Burgess C. P. Snow called certainly chapter character comic consciousness contemporary critical Crouchback cultural deal described discussion early Eliot England English ideology English novel English novelists essay experience fact feel genre Giles Goat-Boy Golden Notebook hero Human Condition ideas identity imagination inevitably instance interest Iris Murdoch John Barth John Bayley Joyce kind liberal literary literature looking Lucky Jim Marxist matter modern Music myth narrative narrator Nevertheless nineteenth-century perhaps personality possible Powell Powell's Proust published Pynchon R. W. B. Lewis reader realistic reality remarked Robbe-Grillet seems sense short story shows Snow Snow's social society Strangers and Brothers stylistic Swim-Two-Birds Sword of Honour things tion totalitarian traditional twentieth century verbal Waugh Widmerpool Wilson words writing young