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Page 37
If it doesn't manage to get back on to a proper footing it will mean that its life is
intimately linked to that of a bygone society. If it does manage it, on the other
hand, a new path will be open to it, with the promise of new discoveries. (
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If it doesn't manage to get back on to a proper footing it will mean that its life is
intimately linked to that of a bygone society. If it does manage it, on the other
hand, a new path will be open to it, with the promise of new discoveries. (
Snapshots ...
Page 62
course, have their own peculiar forms of domestic horror, like the national
addiction to cruelty to children, but we can acquitourselves of the charge of being
a society in love with the gun, like America. It may be in bad taste to stress this
point, ...
course, have their own peculiar forms of domestic horror, like the national
addiction to cruelty to children, but we can acquitourselves of the charge of being
a society in love with the gun, like America. It may be in bad taste to stress this
point, ...
Page 185
Nevertheless, as an embodied imaginative vision of life A Clockwork Orange is
hard both to forget and to refute, and in its emphasis on the nature of human
freedom in a totalitarian society the book has philosophical as well as literary ...
Nevertheless, as an embodied imaginative vision of life A Clockwork Orange is
hard both to forget and to refute, and in its emphasis on the nature of human
freedom in a totalitarian society the book has philosophical as well as literary ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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