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Page 93
... perhaps , another name for the camera lens . Pynchon and Barth deal with the situation in a different way , not by abandoning the traditional attributes of the novel , but by refus- ing to take them seriously , exaggerating or ...
... perhaps , another name for the camera lens . Pynchon and Barth deal with the situation in a different way , not by abandoning the traditional attributes of the novel , but by refus- ing to take them seriously , exaggerating or ...
Page 149
... perhaps , anything particularly English about such a set of attitudes : critics such as Leslie Fiedler and R. W. B. Lewis have shown how American fiction tends to alternate between nostalgia for a vanished childhood or Eden and visions ...
... perhaps , anything particularly English about such a set of attitudes : critics such as Leslie Fiedler and R. W. B. Lewis have shown how American fiction tends to alternate between nostalgia for a vanished childhood or Eden and visions ...
Page 164
... perhaps , we see the general ogre Who rode our ancestors to nightmare , And in his habitat their maps of hell . But climates and geographies soon change , Spawning mutations none can quell With silver sword or necromancer's ring , Worse ...
... perhaps , we see the general ogre Who rode our ancestors to nightmare , And in his habitat their maps of hell . But climates and geographies soon change , Spawning mutations none can quell With silver sword or necromancer's ring , Worse ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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