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... characters ... long ago invaded criticism of the novel . ' Character , it is contended , is the creation of the reader , not the writer . Doubtless it is no argument to say that novelists themselves have commonly believed that it was an ...
... characters ... long ago invaded criticism of the novel . ' Character , it is contended , is the creation of the reader , not the writer . Doubtless it is no argument to say that novelists themselves have commonly believed that it was an ...
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... characters . This is so regardless of whether he is describing characters that are formally comic . In Dombey , for instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our Mutual Friend , Dickens is concentrating so exclusively on ...
... characters . This is so regardless of whether he is describing characters that are formally comic . In Dombey , for instance , or Carker in the same novel , or Headstone in Our Mutual Friend , Dickens is concentrating so exclusively on ...
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... characters : they look like Dickens characters , they speak like them . And though The Hole in the Wall is genuinely a work of realism , the whole portrayal of character in it suggests that Morrison's affinities were much less close to ...
... characters : they look like Dickens characters , they speak like them . And though The Hole in the Wall is genuinely a work of realism , the whole portrayal of character in it suggests that Morrison's affinities were much less close to ...
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