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... remains as stark as when Wittgenstein wrote the Trac- tatus Logico - Philosophicus ( whatever direction his subsequent thought may have taken ) , and it is appropriate that Harry Levin should have used propositions from that work as the ...
... remains as stark as when Wittgenstein wrote the Trac- tatus Logico - Philosophicus ( whatever direction his subsequent thought may have taken ) , and it is appropriate that Harry Levin should have used propositions from that work as the ...
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Bernard Bergonzi. to him to engage our sympathies , but he remains the stylised embodiment of a number of predictable gestures . Nevertheless the impact of this book is quite different from that of its two pre- decessors . The farce is ...
Bernard Bergonzi. to him to engage our sympathies , but he remains the stylised embodiment of a number of predictable gestures . Nevertheless the impact of this book is quite different from that of its two pre- decessors . The farce is ...
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... remains largely accurate ; Powell's view of time is conservative , and unlike Sterne or Proust or Robbe - Grillet he does not see it as imposing intractable problems on the writer of fiction . As Hall suggests , Powell - or Jenkins is ...
... remains largely accurate ; Powell's view of time is conservative , and unlike Sterne or Proust or Robbe - Grillet he does not see it as imposing intractable problems on the writer of fiction . As Hall suggests , Powell - or Jenkins is ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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