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... reflects the poem's epic indifference to a conventionally unfolding time - sequence . In the visual arts , cubism and its derivatives were able to achieve simultaneity of vision and the dissolution of conventional per- spective in a far ...
... reflects the poem's epic indifference to a conventionally unfolding time - sequence . In the visual arts , cubism and its derivatives were able to achieve simultaneity of vision and the dissolution of conventional per- spective in a far ...
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... reflect the influence of Orwell ( and of Orwell's own models , Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes and Huxley's Brave New World ) , and indicate an immense distaste for the welfare state and the planned society associated with the post - war ...
... reflect the influence of Orwell ( and of Orwell's own models , Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes and Huxley's Brave New World ) , and indicate an immense distaste for the welfare state and the planned society associated with the post - war ...
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... reflects the deep distrust of the aesthetic and ludic dimensions of life that characterises the contemporary left and its theorists : only Norman Mailer , a self - styled ' left conservative ' and a master of language , has shown any ...
... reflects the deep distrust of the aesthetic and ludic dimensions of life that characterises the contemporary left and its theorists : only Norman Mailer , a self - styled ' left conservative ' and a master of language , has shown any ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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