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Pragmatic and Idealistic

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April 1981, no. 29

Political Fictions by Michael Wilding

Routledge & Kegan Paul, $34.50 hb, 226 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

The Workingman’s Paradise by William Lane

Sydney University Press, $10.00 pb, 225 pp

Pragmatic and Idealistic

by
April 1981, no. 29

Not the least of the many virtues of Michael Wilding’s Political Fictions is that it sets out its argument in a cogent way, stating its intellectual premises forthrightly and following them through with as little compromise as possible. This sort of ideological criticism (ideological, even though Wilding insists his judgments are primarily literary ones, and analyses the prose of the chosen novels closely) is rare in Australia. Here critics have mostly been content to proceed from a purely pragmatic basis – or, as the sympathetic would have it, have been content to be intelligent rather than ideological.

Political Fictions

Political Fictions

by Michael Wilding

Routledge & Kegan Paul, $34.50 hb, 226 pp

The Workingman’s Paradise

The Workingman’s Paradise

by William Lane

Sydney University Press, $10.00 pb, 225 pp

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