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... fantasy is not only Babbitt's but Lewis's . Lewis is presenting Babbitt's fantasy not satirically but in dead seriousness ; in content and style it is closely akin to the keepsake - album verse he wrote as a young man . The fantasy is ...
... fantasy is not only Babbitt's but Lewis's . Lewis is presenting Babbitt's fantasy not satirically but in dead seriousness ; in content and style it is closely akin to the keepsake - album verse he wrote as a young man . The fantasy is ...
Page 151
... fantasy into reality , on the baseball diamond , in saloons and brothels and the violence of the streets at night . He is terrifyingly immature but also utterly convincing , so minutely is his fantasy - life particularized . Dreiser's ...
... fantasy into reality , on the baseball diamond , in saloons and brothels and the violence of the streets at night . He is terrifyingly immature but also utterly convincing , so minutely is his fantasy - life particularized . Dreiser's ...
Page 239
... fantasy in the theatre . Even so , when one has invoked the surrealists , Kafka and the rest , one may still think the fantasy would have developed without their influence . They gave the method a validity and , up to a point , offered ...
... fantasy in the theatre . Even so , when one has invoked the surrealists , Kafka and the rest , one may still think the fantasy would have developed without their influence . They gave the method a validity and , up to a point , offered ...
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