The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... offer ' ( The Gates of Horn , 1967 : p . 137 ) . The tension is always present : in the nineteenth - century masters , we may say , the pull was most strongly towards life ; in the eighteenth - century novel , and again in recent ...
... offer ' ( The Gates of Horn , 1967 : p . 137 ) . The tension is always present : in the nineteenth - century masters , we may say , the pull was most strongly towards life ; in the eighteenth - century novel , and again in recent ...
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... offers a convenient point to return to the question of character in the novel . As it has developed from Murphy ... offer a blunt criticism in the language of old - fashioned humanism – in Lukács's - case , with a Marxist accent ...
... offers a convenient point to return to the question of character in the novel . As it has developed from Murphy ... offer a blunt criticism in the language of old - fashioned humanism – in Lukács's - case , with a Marxist accent ...
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... offer- ing an impeccable guide and gazetteer of the city of Dublin in the year 1904 , have been shown by Robert Martin Adams ( Surface and Symbol , 1962 ) to contain many wilful inaccuracies and arbitrary discontinuities , deliberately ...
... offer- ing an impeccable guide and gazetteer of the city of Dublin in the year 1904 , have been shown by Robert Martin Adams ( Surface and Symbol , 1962 ) to contain many wilful inaccuracies and arbitrary discontinuities , deliberately ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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