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It is not simply that the songs, so contrasted in their moods, are placed in
juxtaposition or that, as in all Peacock's novels, they aerate the dialogue and
keep it bubbling with a liveliness additional to that of the text, so that, when we
look back on ...
It is not simply that the songs, so contrasted in their moods, are placed in
juxtaposition or that, as in all Peacock's novels, they aerate the dialogue and
keep it bubbling with a liveliness additional to that of the text, so that, when we
look back on ...
Page 263
One of the constant cries of his Notebooks is “Dramatize, only dramatize!' while
throughout his criticism there runs the analogy by which the novel is seen as
composition or 'the fictive picture'. There is no contradiction; he is simply invoking,
...
One of the constant cries of his Notebooks is “Dramatize, only dramatize!' while
throughout his criticism there runs the analogy by which the novel is seen as
composition or 'the fictive picture'. There is no contradiction; he is simply invoking,
...
Page 334
In To the Lighthouse the issue is simply whether or not a family on holiday in the
Hebrides will be able to row out to the lighthouse. In The Waves action in any
normal sense is dispensed with altogether. Yet even so slight as action is in her ...
In To the Lighthouse the issue is simply whether or not a family on holiday in the
Hebrides will be able to row out to the lighthouse. In The Waves action in any
normal sense is dispensed with altogether. Yet even so slight as action is in her ...
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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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