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... prose and very much prose , and to write about ordinary life as histories and epics are written ' . Joyce bodies forth the very feel and texture of specific scenes , and atmospheres , as , for example , the evocation of early morning at ...
... prose and very much prose , and to write about ordinary life as histories and epics are written ' . Joyce bodies forth the very feel and texture of specific scenes , and atmospheres , as , for example , the evocation of early morning at ...
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... prose at its best is as exciting as any written in English this century ; whether it is a natural prose for a novelist is another matter . Because of the very intensity of his visual perceptions , it is , as it were , prose in slow ...
... prose at its best is as exciting as any written in English this century ; whether it is a natural prose for a novelist is another matter . Because of the very intensity of his visual perceptions , it is , as it were , prose in slow ...
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... prose to be ; whole paragraphs are suddenly discovered to be in blank verse . Yet , when all this is said , the prose remains a triumph of style , as much , in its totally different way , as Hemingway's is . The best analysis I know of ...
... prose to be ; whole paragraphs are suddenly discovered to be in blank verse . Yet , when all this is said , the prose remains a triumph of style , as much , in its totally different way , as Hemingway's is . The best analysis I know of ...
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