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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Page 114
... South in its feudal aspect . Here , I suspect unwittingly , Caroline Gordon exposes the moral corruption that was ... South is infinitely more complex . His fiction , one feels , is rooted almost in the folk - memory , not the product of ...
... South in its feudal aspect . Here , I suspect unwittingly , Caroline Gordon exposes the moral corruption that was ... South is infinitely more complex . His fiction , one feels , is rooted almost in the folk - memory , not the product of ...
Page 115
... South , for hate , in Shreve's terms , is too simple a word . But hate , as we know , is the other face of love ; and in Quentin's - and Faulkner's - attitude to the South both love and hate - love - hate - are involved . The relation ...
... South , for hate , in Shreve's terms , is too simple a word . But hate , as we know , is the other face of love ; and in Quentin's - and Faulkner's - attitude to the South both love and hate - love - hate - are involved . The relation ...
Page 124
... South . Sutpen is a symbolic figure . In a sense , he is the South ; that he has built his great house and established himself in a very short time is merely the dramatic telescoping of a process that in Virginia and North Carolina had ...
... South . Sutpen is a symbolic figure . In a sense , he is the South ; that he has built his great house and established himself in a very short time is merely the dramatic telescoping of a process that in Virginia and North Carolina had ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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