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... gives a party , a man who has been in love with her comes back from India , a young man suffering from war neurosis commits suicide . But this is enough to enable Virginia Woolf to show us life as in a state of constant creation ...
... gives a party , a man who has been in love with her comes back from India , a young man suffering from war neurosis commits suicide . But this is enough to enable Virginia Woolf to show us life as in a state of constant creation ...
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... gives , of imbecility as a result of genera- tions of inbreeding . Ellen Glasgow gives us the knowledge of the South , its history and people that Faulkner assumes in us . In fiction for the past thirty years the South has 112 TRADITION ...
... gives , of imbecility as a result of genera- tions of inbreeding . Ellen Glasgow gives us the knowledge of the South , its history and people that Faulkner assumes in us . In fiction for the past thirty years the South has 112 TRADITION ...
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... give us a rationalization of life . Newby does not : he gives us , instead , the bewilderment of minds in crisis at the moment of crisis itself , renders his characters in what might be called a state of hallucinated vision . For all ...
... give us a rationalization of life . Newby does not : he gives us , instead , the bewilderment of minds in crisis at the moment of crisis itself , renders his characters in what might be called a state of hallucinated vision . For all ...
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