The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... artist to a fanatical scrupu- losity , as it were a physical incapacity to depart from nature's truths in exchange for any other . This is as inescapable as the requirements of geometry . The writer Flaubert as much as the painter ...
... artist to a fanatical scrupu- losity , as it were a physical incapacity to depart from nature's truths in exchange for any other . This is as inescapable as the requirements of geometry . The writer Flaubert as much as the painter ...
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... artist plays in it . The notion of the artist as a dedicated man is very recent ; it comes from the Romantic poets and its holy scripture in English is Shelley's A De- fence of Poetry . The artist , so runs the claim , is responsible to ...
... artist plays in it . The notion of the artist as a dedicated man is very recent ; it comes from the Romantic poets and its holy scripture in English is Shelley's A De- fence of Poetry . The artist , so runs the claim , is responsible to ...
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... artist in the novel of our time , and if we were to take him as the only kind of artist we should have to deny altogether the title of D. H. Lawrence . Lawrence exists at the opposite pole of the creative impulse to Joyce ; he is a ...
... artist in the novel of our time , and if we were to take him as the only kind of artist we should have to deny altogether the title of D. H. Lawrence . Lawrence exists at the opposite pole of the creative impulse to Joyce ; he is a ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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