The Situation of the Novel

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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 - American fiction - 226 pages
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Short Story THE short story is a paradoxical form in that it is both common and
neglected: one or two specimens, at least, are to be found in any self-respecting
intellectual quarterly or glossy monthly, yet no one seems very interested in the ...
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I admire Mr Herlihy: he is a superb stylist, as his longer fiction has already made
plain; but in his stories everything is liable to be consumed by style. In the parallel
story by Paul Bowles a somewhat confused maniac devises a scheme for ...
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short stories; still one must insist on his extreme verbal skill, while finding what he
does with it very limited and ultimately ... who is very competent, but who relies
heavily on the short-story formula to compensate for the thinness of her material.

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Contents

preface
7
The Novel No Longer Novel
11
Character and Liberalism
35
Copyright

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About the author (1971)

Bernard Bergonzi was born in London, England on April 13, 1929. He was a poet, critic, and professor. He taught English literature at Manchester University and Warwick University, where he remained until he retired in 1992. He wrote monographs on H. G. Wells, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Arnold, and Graham Greene. His other books included Manchester: The Early H. G. Wells, Heroes' Twilight, The Situation of the Novel, The Myth of Modernism, Exploding English, The Roman Persuasion, Wartime and Aftermath, War Poets and Other Subjects, A Victorian Wanderer, and A Study in Greene. He died on September 20, 2016 at the age of 87.

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TitleThe Situation of the Novel
Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X
AuthorBernard Bergonzi
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 1971
ISBN0822932148, 9780822932147
Length226 pages
  
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