The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... experience which the authors can put into it , but more importantly because of the thoroughness with which they have internalised the formulas of countless other modern novels in a similar vein , and then proceeded to interpret their ...
... experience which the authors can put into it , but more importantly because of the thoroughness with which they have internalised the formulas of countless other modern novels in a similar vein , and then proceeded to interpret their ...
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... experiences of the novel flow inevitably into our own experiences , and the characters we meet have the freedom , the opacity , the unpredictability of the people we ourselves know and love . All else is ' pastoral ' , where experience ...
... experiences of the novel flow inevitably into our own experiences , and the characters we meet have the freedom , the opacity , the unpredictability of the people we ourselves know and love . All else is ' pastoral ' , where experience ...
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... experiences as the author himself , as parts of Trawl make apparent . Johnson seems to have been prompted both by a demand for total moral honesty , seeing novel - writing as a means of reproducing experience as faithfully as possible ...
... experiences as the author himself , as parts of Trawl make apparent . Johnson seems to have been prompted both by a demand for total moral honesty , seeing novel - writing as a means of reproducing experience as faithfully as possible ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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