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Colin Burrow: Dreadful Mr Dahl, 15 December 2022
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, an Unofficial Biography
by Matthew Dennison.
Head of Zeus, 264 pp., £20, August 2022,978 1 78854 941 7 Show More
by Matthew Dennison.
Head of Zeus, 264 pp., £20, August 2022,
“... that can be conditioned by repeated exposure to external stimuli.The behaviourism of B.F. Skinner was part of the lingua franca of 1950s America that Dahl absorbed. Some version of it underlay his effort to retrain his wife in the art of speech. It also lies beneath his early children’s fiction. Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ... ”
