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... Forster , then , is a nullity , a void . Fundamentally , Forster is a tragic humanist for whom man is justified by his self - awareness and by the fruits of his imagination , by the arts and , especially perhaps , by music . He is the ...
... Forster , then , is a nullity , a void . Fundamentally , Forster is a tragic humanist for whom man is justified by his self - awareness and by the fruits of his imagination , by the arts and , especially perhaps , by music . He is the ...
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... Forster's short stories the symbol is often Greece , in the early novels Italy . These symbols are not sentimentalized , for Greece contains Pan , and Forster's symbol always includes the life of impulse , of impulse even to brutishness ...
... Forster's short stories the symbol is often Greece , in the early novels Italy . These symbols are not sentimentalized , for Greece contains Pan , and Forster's symbol always includes the life of impulse , of impulse even to brutishness ...
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... Forster's measuring - rod of his upper - class , public school , Anglo - Saxon characters is still more evident in The Longest Journey ( 1907 ) , in many ways the most delightful of his novels . Its theme is reality and its nature , as ...
... Forster's measuring - rod of his upper - class , public school , Anglo - Saxon characters is still more evident in The Longest Journey ( 1907 ) , in many ways the most delightful of his novels . Its theme is reality and its nature , as ...
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