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i 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 ...
i 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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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 .
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Situation of the Novel |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1970 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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