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... even though he may give us no more than a glimpse of them, they become real
for us. Behind every simple statement of Fielding's we feel the force of a deep
and varied experience of life, an experience that, however bitter it may have been
, ...
... even though he may give us no more than a glimpse of them, they become real
for us. Behind every simple statement of Fielding's we feel the force of a deep
and varied experience of life, an experience that, however bitter it may have been
, ...
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Like Pater's, her attitude to experience is aesthetic. ... world in which the
character moves; and at the same time the moment experienced is bound to and
recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through 1914 AND
AFTER 419.
Like Pater's, her attitude to experience is aesthetic. ... world in which the
character moves; and at the same time the moment experienced is bound to and
recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through 1914 AND
AFTER 419.
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and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of
association. Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust
did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. What happens in a Virginia Woolf novel ...
and recapitulates moments of similar experience in the past through the links of
association. Here Virginia Woolf is constantly doing on a small scale what Proust
did in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. What happens in a Virginia Woolf novel ...
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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