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with a great weight of landscape give this sense , as in Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang ( 1976 ) and George R. Stewart's Earth Abides ( 1949 ) —a Southern title indeed . That is the sense the South can give to ...
with a great weight of landscape give this sense , as in Kate Wilhelm's Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang ( 1976 ) and George R. Stewart's Earth Abides ( 1949 ) —a Southern title indeed . That is the sense the South can give to ...
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Clarke gives it extravagant praise : young Riddley writes in a form of Post Modern English which reflects perfectly the spear and bow culture of a primitive society .... The book is a marvel of lexical inventiveness .
Clarke gives it extravagant praise : young Riddley writes in a form of Post Modern English which reflects perfectly the spear and bow culture of a primitive society .... The book is a marvel of lexical inventiveness .
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He then gives examples of three kinds of paradox — metalinguistic , thematic , and intertextual — from Huysmans , Baudelaire , and others . In Against Nature , for example , Des Esseintes's desire for natural flowers that look like ...
He then gives examples of three kinds of paradox — metalinguistic , thematic , and intertextual — from Huysmans , Baudelaire , and others . In Against Nature , for example , Des Esseintes's desire for natural flowers that look like ...
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