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Page 36
... traditional ways of seeing character as an absolute no longer conceivable . Lawrence's well - worn phrase ' You mustn't look in my novel for the old stable ego - of the character ' is frequently invoked . These literary considerations ...
... traditional ways of seeing character as an absolute no longer conceivable . Lawrence's well - worn phrase ' You mustn't look in my novel for the old stable ego - of the character ' is frequently invoked . These literary considerations ...
Page 100
... traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still more The Crying of Lot 49 , might be described as extended puns on the different senses of the word ' plot ' . The ...
... traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still more The Crying of Lot 49 , might be described as extended puns on the different senses of the word ' plot ' . The ...
Page 164
... traditional English virtues , the other heroes being Lawrence , Leavis and Orwell . In so far as Amis's basic ideas about novel - writing are traditional - both as stated in his criticism and implicitly expressed in his fiction - then ...
... traditional English virtues , the other heroes being Lawrence , Leavis and Orwell . In so far as Amis's basic ideas about novel - writing are traditional - both as stated in his criticism and implicitly expressed in his fiction - then ...
Contents
Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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