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A better one would be the whole wonderful scene between Adams and Parson
Trulliber, who is more concerned with his pigs than the cure of souls, and who
believes, at first, that Adams too must be a pig-dealer. “Written in Imitation of the ...
A better one would be the whole wonderful scene between Adams and Parson
Trulliber, who is more concerned with his pigs than the cure of souls, and who
believes, at first, that Adams too must be a pig-dealer. “Written in Imitation of the ...
Page 299
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. Just before Decoud, in ...
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. Just before Decoud, in ...
Page 348
An example of Lawrence's use of the symbol is the scene in the final chapter of
The Rainbow, in which Ursula encounters the horses on the common. Have the
horses an objective existence? Are they a projection of her unconscious?
An example of Lawrence's use of the symbol is the scene in the final chapter of
The Rainbow, in which Ursula encounters the horses on the common. Have the
horses an objective existence? Are they a projection of her unconscious?
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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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