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... James family , then , evil was not an abstract quality but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his most ...
... James family , then , evil was not an abstract quality but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his most ...
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... James's recognition and dramatization of the uncomfortable truth the idealistic Left has rarely faced , that the ... James and pre- sented all the time as the victim . This is right enough : one would not expect him to be a Stendhalian ...
... James's recognition and dramatization of the uncomfortable truth the idealistic Left has rarely faced , that the ... James and pre- sented all the time as the victim . This is right enough : one would not expect him to be a Stendhalian ...
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... James's technical innovations and all his attempts to make of the novel a self - contained whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that ...
... James's technical innovations and all his attempts to make of the novel a self - contained whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that ...
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