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The point is that they are all rooted in the most palpable kinds of material reality,
the reality of life shaped by the forces of history, or the reality of work, of
traditional skills and professions. These realities give them reality. And what is
remarkable ...
The point is that they are all rooted in the most palpable kinds of material reality,
the reality of life shaped by the forces of history, or the reality of work, of
traditional skills and professions. These realities give them reality. And what is
remarkable ...
Page 272
At the same time, the women in the novel, the old Kirstie and the young, for the
first time in Stevenson have reality, and their reality is vibrant. Weir of Hermiston
strikes us as a fragment of epic. We know that the Lord Justice-Clerk was based
on ...
At the same time, the women in the novel, the old Kirstie and the young, for the
first time in Stevenson have reality, and their reality is vibrant. Weir of Hermiston
strikes us as a fragment of epic. We know that the Lord Justice-Clerk was based
on ...
Page 323
Its theme is reality and its nature, as is made plain in the first chapter, in which the
hero Rickie, then an undergraduate, is discussing with his friends the
metaphysical problem, Does a cow exist when there is no one there to see it?
Rickie is in ...
Its theme is reality and its nature, as is made plain in the first chapter, in which the
hero Rickie, then an undergraduate, is discussing with his friends the
metaphysical problem, Does a cow exist when there is no one there to see it?
Rickie is in ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Volume 9 of Dutton Paperback: D Pelican books |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1954 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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