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A Matter of Rhetoric?
Hoggart, Richard | April 27, 1957 issue

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The article discusses books and authors. Reading English novelist Edward Forster's "A Passage to India" here in America proved rather more disturbing to the me than to my class of English majors. They had the expected difficulties, notably in coming to terms with Forster's tone; yet they remained politely receptive and intelligently patient. But I, after half a year's steeping in American emotional forms and styles of conversation and public utterance, manners of neighborhood and personal engagement, felt for a while, really alien to the book; as though I'd suddenly walked in home again from a very far shore and wasn't ready for a readjustment.

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NOVELISTS, English; FORSTER, Edward; AUTHORS; LITERATURE; AUTHORSHIP; BOOKS & reading
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