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... dramatic technique ; the letters the char- acters write to one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles Grandi- son we exist , as we do when watching a play or a film , in a continuous ...
... dramatic technique ; the letters the char- acters write to one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles Grandi- son we exist , as we do when watching a play or a film , in a continuous ...
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... dramatic passages , he is in the end no more convincing than the virtuous in fiction usually are . He is , in fact , too much of a good thing ; he scatters the largesse of his benevolence on all sides , but neither his THE EIGHTEENTH ...
... dramatic passages , he is in the end no more convincing than the virtuous in fiction usually are . He is , in fact , too much of a good thing ; he scatters the largesse of his benevolence on all sides , but neither his THE EIGHTEENTH ...
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... dramatic method of presenting action through a succession of short scenes in dialogue . Though keeping the right to comment , she relied more on dialogue ; but , as with Fielding , the comment is not only direct but implicit in the turn ...
... dramatic method of presenting action through a succession of short scenes in dialogue . Though keeping the right to comment , she relied more on dialogue ; but , as with Fielding , the comment is not only direct but implicit in the turn ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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