The Situation of the NovelExamines the contemporary novel as a byproduct of English culture. |
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... recent years I have read a good many books some admirable I which offer a panoramic or comprehensive survey of the novel , or try to define its essence as a literary mode . I have learnt a great deal from them , but I am not now trying ...
... recent years I have read a good many books some admirable I which offer a panoramic or comprehensive survey of the novel , or try to define its essence as a literary mode . I have learnt a great deal from them , but I am not now trying ...
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... recent fiction , there is a pronounced pull towards an awareness of craft and convention . At the one extreme we have Tolstoy , who seems to offer not art , but the very substance of life itself , as John Bayley enthusiastically reminds ...
... recent fiction , there is a pronounced pull towards an awareness of craft and convention . At the one extreme we have Tolstoy , who seems to offer not art , but the very substance of life itself , as John Bayley enthusiastically reminds ...
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... recent essay ( ' British Marxists and American Freudians ' , in Innova- tions , ed . Bergonzi ) ; he contrasts the stress on the value of ' simple ordinary community life ' that we find in Lawrence or Raymond Williams , with Sartre's ...
... recent essay ( ' British Marxists and American Freudians ' , in Innova- tions , ed . Bergonzi ) ; he contrasts the stress on the value of ' simple ordinary community life ' that we find in Lawrence or Raymond Williams , with Sartre's ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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