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... reader will cooperate to persuade himself that he is in contact with ' real people , ' " she is describing what goes on only in the reading of fiction of a low order of ambi- tion and attainment . The more highly a novelist has or ...
... reader will cooperate to persuade himself that he is in contact with ' real people , ' " she is describing what goes on only in the reading of fiction of a low order of ambi- tion and attainment . The more highly a novelist has or ...
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... reader with surprise and pleasure . " He was putting for- ward the classical theory of comedy , a view later restated by Meredith in his famous essay . Yet he was doing his own creations less than justice . He points out , rightly ...
... reader with surprise and pleasure . " He was putting for- ward the classical theory of comedy , a view later restated by Meredith in his famous essay . Yet he was doing his own creations less than justice . He points out , rightly ...
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... reader takes up the novel to read . But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf , we , as readers , are as it were at the cutting edge of the characters ' minds ; we share the continuous present of their consciousness ...
... reader takes up the novel to read . But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf , we , as readers , are as it were at the cutting edge of the characters ' minds ; we share the continuous present of their consciousness ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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