Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... Powys , the more so since Under Milk Wood is not without its debts to him . Yet the implied criticism seems to me just : Powys's stories are sophisticatedly contrived bucolic moralities . Mr Tasker's Gods ( 1924 ) may be taken as ...
... Powys , the more so since Under Milk Wood is not without its debts to him . Yet the implied criticism seems to me just : Powys's stories are sophisticatedly contrived bucolic moralities . Mr Tasker's Gods ( 1924 ) may be taken as ...
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... Powys's moralities from the actual world by reference to which the moralities must be judged . At times , Powys's style becomes intolerably arch and coy , especially where sex is concerned . Powys's world is as artificial , as ...
... Powys's moralities from the actual world by reference to which the moralities must be judged . At times , Powys's style becomes intolerably arch and coy , especially where sex is concerned . Powys's world is as artificial , as ...
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... Powys's imaginative power can scarcely be questioned ; and as an example of his genius working at length one might choose the scene in A Glastonbury Romance in which Philip Crow seduces Persephone Spear in the caves of Wookey Hole ...
... Powys's imaginative power can scarcely be questioned ; and as an example of his genius working at length one might choose the scene in A Glastonbury Romance in which Philip Crow seduces Persephone Spear in the caves of Wookey Hole ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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