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... BEGINNINGS read Troilus and Criseyde and the Testament of Cresseid as though they were novels in verse , we have to ... beginning . Chaucer's death in 1400 coincided with a change in the structure of the language , and after him the art ...
... BEGINNINGS read Troilus and Criseyde and the Testament of Cresseid as though they were novels in verse , we have to ... beginning . Chaucer's death in 1400 coincided with a change in the structure of the language , and after him the art ...
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... BEGINNINGS 15 of the seventeenth century what prose fiction there was was merely a pale imitation of French ... beginning of the century , examples not quite of scientific interest in character but at least of attempts to define ...
... BEGINNINGS 15 of the seventeenth century what prose fiction there was was merely a pale imitation of French ... beginning of the century , examples not quite of scientific interest in character but at least of attempts to define ...
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... beginning to end two themes are dominant , though they are far from being his only ones . The first is what he himself called the ' international subject ' , which meant in effect the relationship between America and Americans on the ...
... beginning to end two themes are dominant , though they are far from being his only ones . The first is what he himself called the ' international subject ' , which meant in effect the relationship between America and Americans on the ...
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