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... reader , not the writer . Doubtless it is no argument to say that novelists themselves have commonly believed that it was an important part of their function to create characters . A novel is a totality , made up of all the words in it ...
... reader , not the writer . Doubtless it is no argument to say that novelists themselves have commonly believed that it was an important part of their function to create characters . A novel is a totality , made up of all the words in it ...
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... reader's friend ' , and his job is to elucidate Maggie both to herself and to the reader , to set her and her ardours of emotion in perspective . So when Maggie says to him : ' Is it not right to resign ourselves entirely , what- ever ...
... reader's friend ' , and his job is to elucidate Maggie both to herself and to the reader , to set her and her ardours of emotion in perspective . So when Maggie says to him : ' Is it not right to resign ourselves entirely , what- ever ...
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... reader takes up the novel to read . But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf , we , as readers , are as it were at the cutting - edge of the characters ' minds ; we share the continuous present of their consciousness ...
... reader takes up the novel to read . But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf , we , as readers , are as it were at the cutting - edge of the characters ' minds ; we share the continuous present of their consciousness ...
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