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And his symbolism can only be described by examples. The overriding single
subject of these later novels is mone which is itself a symbol, and the things that
go with money, power, position, and so on. (In passing, one may point out,
because ...
And his symbolism can only be described by examples. The overriding single
subject of these later novels is mone which is itself a symbol, and the things that
go with money, power, position, and so on. (In passing, one may point out,
because ...
Page 322
I Forster's short stories the symbol is often Greece, in the early nove Italy. These
symbols are not sentimentalized, for Greece contains Pa. and Forster's symbol
always includes the life of impulse, of impuls even to brutishness and cruelty.
I Forster's short stories the symbol is often Greece, in the early nove Italy. These
symbols are not sentimentalized, for Greece contains Pa. and Forster's symbol
always includes the life of impulse, of impuls even to brutishness and cruelty.
Page 347
Any such exploration must be through the symbol, since the unconscious, as
unconscious, is by definition unknowable; or rather, is knowable only through the
symbol. Lawrence is a master of the symbol in the psychological sense, as Jung
...
Any such exploration must be through the symbol, since the unconscious, as
unconscious, is by definition unknowable; or rather, is knowable only through the
symbol. Lawrence is a master of the symbol in the psychological sense, as Jung
...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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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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