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Page 49
... E. M. Forster's sense of the word . But this is not so at all . Flat characters are represen- tations of idées fixes ; typical flat characters are Smollett's Hawser Trunnion and Dickens's Mrs. Micawber . They are characters THE ...
... E. M. Forster's sense of the word . But this is not so at all . Flat characters are represen- tations of idées fixes ; typical flat characters are Smollett's Hawser Trunnion and Dickens's Mrs. Micawber . They are characters THE ...
Page 73
... E. M. Forster's word and call it a fantasy , which at least indicates that Sterne was not out to produce the simulacrum of reality both Fielding and Richardson in their different ways were after . Yet Sterne creates a world , and it is ...
... E. M. Forster's word and call it a fantasy , which at least indicates that Sterne was not out to produce the simulacrum of reality both Fielding and Richardson in their different ways were after . Yet Sterne creates a world , and it is ...
Page 126
... E. M. Forster , in Aspects of the Novel : and if we want the case against Scott we cannot do better than continue the quotation : He is seen to have a trivial mind and a heavy style . He can- not construct . He has neither artistic ...
... E. M. Forster , in Aspects of the Novel : and if we want the case against Scott we cannot do better than continue the quotation : He is seen to have a trivial mind and a heavy style . He can- not construct . He has neither artistic ...
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