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... literary form and my opinions on individual novelists will , I imagine , be obvious enough to those familiar with the field . Wherever possible , I have given specific references in the text . Here , there is room only for a list of the ...
... literary form and my opinions on individual novelists will , I imagine , be obvious enough to those familiar with the field . Wherever possible , I have given specific references in the text . Here , there is room only for a list of the ...
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... literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to others , is much more difficult and complex than some literary historians seem to think . The apparent influence of an older novelist on a later may , in fact , be no influence at ...
... literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to others , is much more difficult and complex than some literary historians seem to think . The apparent influence of an older novelist on a later may , in fact , be no influence at ...
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... literary form too narrowly . To summarize the plot is to say even less about the book than such a procedure usually does . We may borrow E. M. Forster's word and call it a fantasy , which at least indicates that Sterne was not out to ...
... literary form too narrowly . To summarize the plot is to say even less about the book than such a procedure usually does . We may borrow E. M. Forster's word and call it a fantasy , which at least indicates that Sterne was not out to ...
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