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Page 37
... acters write to one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles ... acter's suffering , analyzing , experiencing mind . And we not only have the character as he sees and presents him- self ...
... acters write to one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles ... acter's suffering , analyzing , experiencing mind . And we not only have the character as he sees and presents him- self ...
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... acters , except when they speak genteel English . Scott's attitude towards his characters , like his accept- ance of the world in which he lived , is very much akin to Chaucer's . He has an ease , he conveys a feeling of being at home ...
... acters , except when they speak genteel English . Scott's attitude towards his characters , like his accept- ance of the world in which he lived , is very much akin to Chaucer's . He has an ease , he conveys a feeling of being at home ...
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... acters surrender themselves to impassioned self - scrutiny : Professor Isaacs quotes Emma here . Tristram Shandy may be taken as a stream - of - consciousness novel in its own right now ; after Joyce and Virginia Woolf it no longer ...
... acters surrender themselves to impassioned self - scrutiny : Professor Isaacs quotes Emma here . Tristram Shandy may be taken as a stream - of - consciousness novel in its own right now ; after Joyce and Virginia Woolf it no longer ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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