The Modern Writer and His WorldThomas Hardy - Joseph Conrad - W.B.Yeats - H.G. Wells - E.M. Forster - James Joyce - D.H. Lawrence - T.S.Eliot - Virginia Woolf - Robert Graves; George Orwell - Graham Greene - W.H. Auden - Iris Murdoch - Bernard Shaw - J.M. Synge - Ezra Pound - John Osborne - Arnold Wesker. |
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... Jimmy Porter , in Look Back in Anger , embodied that un- articulated resentment which I have sometimes found in male students at a provincial university : a rage for action and enthusiasm ; for some heroic role which contemporary ...
... Jimmy Porter , in Look Back in Anger , embodied that un- articulated resentment which I have sometimes found in male students at a provincial university : a rage for action and enthusiasm ; for some heroic role which contemporary ...
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... Jimmy and his friend Cliff reading the Observer and the Sunday Times in a fur- nished room in a provincial city while Alison irons Jimmy's shirts . Jimmy keeps up a steady flow of vituperation about the vapidity of the posh Sunday ...
... Jimmy and his friend Cliff reading the Observer and the Sunday Times in a fur- nished room in a provincial city while Alison irons Jimmy's shirts . Jimmy keeps up a steady flow of vituperation about the vapidity of the posh Sunday ...
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... Jimmy when he comes back . She has been overtly hostile to him , but she has other , deeper feelings . They have a verbal row , Helena slaps Jimmy's face , then falls into his arms . That is a good curtain for the second act , and the ...
... Jimmy when he comes back . She has been overtly hostile to him , but she has other , deeper feelings . They have a verbal row , Helena slaps Jimmy's face , then falls into his arms . That is a good curtain for the second act , and the ...
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION ས | 7 |
A Background of Ideas | 9 |
Modernity and the Historical Sense | 11 |
Copyright | |
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