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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... reality ; the book that finally decided me was Lenin's Materi- alism and Empirio - Criticism ; this did say that emotion as well as the intellect reflected reality . " With the detachment of hindsight , Up- ward sees the political ...
... reality ; the book that finally decided me was Lenin's Materi- alism and Empirio - Criticism ; this did say that emotion as well as the intellect reflected reality . " With the detachment of hindsight , Up- ward sees the political ...
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... reality is possible , because reality as Tony knows it no longer exists . In the story ' Out of Depth ' , the hero is able to cope with a fundamental change in the nature of reality because of his Catholicism , which is applicable to ...
... reality is possible , because reality as Tony knows it no longer exists . In the story ' Out of Depth ' , the hero is able to cope with a fundamental change in the nature of reality because of his Catholicism , which is applicable to ...
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Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties Richard Johnstone. conviction that reality is oppressive and threatening , and the contra- dictory conviction that within that reality may be discovered positive values which will reconcile the ...
Novelists of the Nineteen-thirties Richard Johnstone. conviction that reality is oppressive and threatening , and the contra- dictory conviction that within that reality may be discovered positive values which will reconcile the ...
Contents
A Common Background | 1 |
Fiction and Belief | 18 |
The Catholic Novelist | 62 |
Copyright | |
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