The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... particular culture . The situation of the novelist is one which he shares with the critic and the general reader , and though literary values lie at the heart of it , any attempt to examine this situation leads towards other questions ...
... particular culture . The situation of the novelist is one which he shares with the critic and the general reader , and though literary values lie at the heart of it , any attempt to examine this situation leads towards other questions ...
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... particular attention to this state of affairs in his entertaining novel The British Museum is Falling Down , in which the hero , a graduate student of literature , constantly interprets his experience in terms of literary parody . In an ...
... particular attention to this state of affairs in his entertaining novel The British Museum is Falling Down , in which the hero , a graduate student of literature , constantly interprets his experience in terms of literary parody . In an ...
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... particular phase of history , and was permeated with a belief in originality and the value of individual expression and of individual experience . The ultimate question is whether a movement which , though compli- cated , is basically ...
... particular phase of history , and was permeated with a belief in originality and the value of individual expression and of individual experience . The ultimate question is whether a movement which , though compli- cated , is basically ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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