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is much more on Proust or Joyce in their destructive or innovatory aspects, which
seem to make 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 ...
is much more on Proust or Joyce in their destructive or innovatory aspects, which
seem to make 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 ...
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Like Barth, Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional 'well-made' novel,
by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elaboration. V., and still more
The Crying of Lot 49, might be described as extended puns on the different ...
Like Barth, Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional 'well-made' novel,
by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elaboration. V., and still more
The Crying of Lot 49, might be described as extended puns on the different ...
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traditional horror; but the second stanza turns to contemporary apocalyptic
imaginings: In him, perhaps, we see the general ogre Who rode our ancestors to
nightmare, And in his habitat their maps of hell. But climates and geographies
soon ...
traditional horror; but the second stanza turns to contemporary apocalyptic
imaginings: In him, perhaps, we see the general ogre Who rode our ancestors to
nightmare, And in his habitat their maps of hell. But climates and geographies
soon ...
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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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