The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties"A study of six novelists of the nineteen-thirties : Edward Upward, Rex Warner, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell." -- Preface. |
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Page 51
... notion of schoolboy heroics . This second definition equates escapism with simplicity , which is in its turn characteristic of parable - art . In other words , the term ' parable ' itself contains at least one notion of escap- ism , the ...
... notion of schoolboy heroics . This second definition equates escapism with simplicity , which is in its turn characteristic of parable - art . In other words , the term ' parable ' itself contains at least one notion of escap- ism , the ...
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... notions of what is to be admired and what condemned , what is sympathetic and what unsympathetic , are reversed in ... notion of goodness , Ida Arnold's , in order to condemn it , but in Brighton Rock the text distances the reader from ...
... notions of what is to be admired and what condemned , what is sympathetic and what unsympathetic , are reversed in ... notion of goodness , Ida Arnold's , in order to condemn it , but in Brighton Rock the text distances the reader from ...
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... notion of Waugh as quite resistant to political humbug can be usefully balanced by an incident from Remote People , in which he spends some time amongst the expatriate planters in Kenya . In contrast to his usual detached and dismissive ...
... notion of Waugh as quite resistant to political humbug can be usefully balanced by an incident from Remote People , in which he spends some time amongst the expatriate planters in Kenya . In contrast to his usual detached and dismissive ...
Contents
A Common Background | 1 |
Fiction and Belief | 18 |
The Catholic Novelist | 62 |
Copyright | |
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