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Page 52
... true ridiculous , as it appears to me , ' he writes , ' is affectation .... From the discovery of this affectation arises the ridiculous , which always strikes the reader with surprise and pleasure . ' He was putting forward the ...
... true ridiculous , as it appears to me , ' he writes , ' is affectation .... From the discovery of this affectation arises the ridiculous , which always strikes the reader with surprise and pleasure . ' He was putting forward the ...
Page 286
... true Naturalism . A case in point is the work of Arthur Morrison ( 1863-1945 ) . Morrison is an excellent minor novelist , and the end he proposed for himself , in novels like A Child of the Jago ( 1896 ) and The Hole in the Wall ( 1902 ) ...
... true Naturalism . A case in point is the work of Arthur Morrison ( 1863-1945 ) . Morrison is an excellent minor novelist , and the end he proposed for himself , in novels like A Child of the Jago ( 1896 ) and The Hole in the Wall ( 1902 ) ...
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... true because it is of the provinces : in Hardy the picture is true not simply because it is of Wessex . At his best Bennett does achieve universality of a kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a ...
... true because it is of the provinces : in Hardy the picture is true not simply because it is of Wessex . At his best Bennett does achieve universality of a kind , but it is not Hardy's kind . It is , if such a thing is possible , a ...
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