The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... called a book at all . " In a way he was right . He also said it was merely a " collection of bold picaresque sketches . " It is for these or for the best of them , the descriptions of the street fights in Edinburgh , the fight with the ...
... called a book at all . " In a way he was right . He also said it was merely a " collection of bold picaresque sketches . " It is for these or for the best of them , the descriptions of the street fights in Edinburgh , the fight with the ...
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... called his " prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called " the ache of modernism . ” In a sense , he represents Hardy's own values : In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance of ...
... called his " prig heroes , " a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called " the ache of modernism . ” In a sense , he represents Hardy's own values : In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance of ...
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... called Realism . Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist ; he saw himself as a French classicist , and dismissed Naturalism as an " ineptitude . ” Certainly the theory of Naturalism leaves out a great deal ...
... called Realism . Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist ; he saw himself as a French classicist , and dismissed Naturalism as an " ineptitude . ” Certainly the theory of Naturalism leaves out a great deal ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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