How to Be Selective with Ideas?

stitute formal or aesthetic values forncultural values. In other words, the formalisticncharacter of modern fiction,nthe impulse toward "pure art." whichnMcCarthy finds so repellent, is closelynrelated to a divorce between literary andncultural values.nW. J. Harvey treats the same phenomenonnin Character and the Novelnwhen he discusses the individual's sensenof . . .