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... become ' new ' to the extent that the material a painter works with , or even the instruments for which a composer writes , can be revolutionized for the purposes of his art , then literature would become not merely divorced from ' life ...
... become ' new ' to the extent that the material a painter works with , or even the instruments for which a composer writes , can be revolutionized for the purposes of his art , then literature would become not merely divorced from ' life ...
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... become general . To quote Bayley again : The novel whose world is exceptional because it is the indi- vidual's world is not the vehicle of Nature , and it is this kind of novel which has become the dominant American literary form . To ...
... become general . To quote Bayley again : The novel whose world is exceptional because it is the indi- vidual's world is not the vehicle of Nature , and it is this kind of novel which has become the dominant American literary form . To ...
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... becomes dominant ; a young army lieutenant finds that his reflection in the mirror is becoming dim and distorted , but ... become irredeemably dated . But as Wells told Henry James in their cele- brated debate in 1915 , ' I had rather be ...
... becomes dominant ; a young army lieutenant finds that his reflection in the mirror is becoming dim and distorted , but ... become irredeemably dated . But as Wells told Henry James in their cele- brated debate in 1915 , ' I had rather be ...
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