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... universe – is shaky . It rests on a naïve epistemology , which posits a total separation between objects and human perception , whereas it is now a philosophical and psycho- logical commonplace to regard perception as a learnt and ...
... universe – is shaky . It rests on a naïve epistemology , which posits a total separation between objects and human perception , whereas it is now a philosophical and psycho- logical commonplace to regard perception as a learnt and ...
Page 100
... universe moves closer and closer to the nightmare reality of America . The final pages have a more genuine emotional power than anything else in Pynchon's books , showing Oedipa Maas's culminating sense of desolation as she attends a ...
... universe moves closer and closer to the nightmare reality of America . The final pages have a more genuine emotional power than anything else in Pynchon's books , showing Oedipa Maas's culminating sense of desolation as she attends a ...
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... universe is not random , but that man and things are in the grip of a malign but perversely intelligent force . In this respect Amis is at the opposite pole to Alain Robbe - Grillet , who posits man and objects as existing in icy mutual ...
... universe is not random , but that man and things are in the grip of a malign but perversely intelligent force . In this respect Amis is at the opposite pole to Alain Robbe - Grillet , who posits man and objects as existing in icy mutual ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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