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Bernard Bergonzi. seriousness in Amis's subsequent fiction . There are also those who claim that Amis is not worth anyone's serious attention , that Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce , and at best no more than a faded ...
Bernard Bergonzi. seriousness in Amis's subsequent fiction . There are also those who claim that Amis is not worth anyone's serious attention , that Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce , and at best no more than a faded ...
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... Amis has been discussed at some length by David Lodge in his book Language of Fiction , and he gives good reasons for seeing Amis as a novelist worth serious critical attention , no matter how flawed his output might be . Although Amis ...
... Amis has been discussed at some length by David Lodge in his book Language of Fiction , and he gives good reasons for seeing Amis as a novelist worth serious critical attention , no matter how flawed his output might be . Although Amis ...
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... Amis is close to the attitudes of his anti - death crusaders , so that Max Hunter's rejection of his past can be seen as a valediction to Lucky Jim . One is not , of course , certain whether Amis would endorse all the ideas expressed in ...
... Amis is close to the attitudes of his anti - death crusaders , so that Max Hunter's rejection of his past can be seen as a valediction to Lucky Jim . One is not , of course , certain whether Amis would endorse all the ideas expressed in ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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