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Page 114
... 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 is that only in very rare instances are they ...
... 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 is that only in very rare instances are they ...
Page 188
... reality ; the reality of George Eliot's characters , like those of James and Lawrence , is primarily psychological , though no hard and fast separation between the two kinds can be made . But Emily Brontë's world and its in- habitants ...
... reality ; the reality of George Eliot's characters , like those of James and Lawrence , is primarily psychological , though no hard and fast separation between the two kinds can be made . But Emily Brontë's world and its in- habitants ...
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... reality . Indeed , Conrad so sets them in the scene , so poses them , as to persuade us not only of their ordinary reality as lifelike characters but of their symbolic reality . An obvious instance is the method of portraying Nostromo ...
... reality . Indeed , Conrad so sets them in the scene , so poses them , as to persuade us not only of their ordinary reality as lifelike characters but of their symbolic reality . An obvious instance is the method of portraying Nostromo ...
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