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... nevertheless in essence a private , individual and silent experience . And from Swift onwards novelists have emphasised the close ties between the novel form and its printed vehicle by the intermittent use of typographical devices ...
... nevertheless in essence a private , individual and silent experience . And from Swift onwards novelists have emphasised the close ties between the novel form and its printed vehicle by the intermittent use of typographical devices ...
Page 69
... nevertheless its badness is , as it were , the product of conscious effort and has something tangible about it , in contrast to the prevalent English non - style . One would be glad , now and then , of an English first novel that opened ...
... nevertheless its badness is , as it were , the product of conscious effort and has something tangible about it , in contrast to the prevalent English non - style . One would be glad , now and then , of an English first novel that opened ...
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... nevertheless I have read enough to convince me that there is an astonishing imbalance between Barth's verbal brilliance and skill as a pasticheur , and the narrowness of his emotional range . There is an underlying crudity in the ...
... nevertheless I have read enough to convince me that there is an astonishing imbalance between Barth's verbal brilliance and skill as a pasticheur , and the narrowness of his emotional range . There is an underlying crudity in the ...
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