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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... accepted realistic surface of things and emphasize , at the expense of the rational and mechanical , of the scientific in its simpler manifestations , the irrational , the uncon- scious , the mythical . Reality lies in a hitherto ...
... accepted realistic surface of things and emphasize , at the expense of the rational and mechanical , of the scientific in its simpler manifestations , the irrational , the uncon- scious , the mythical . Reality lies in a hitherto ...
Page 46
... accept love , imprisoned within himself and , for all his intelligence and his self - knowledge , doomed , as we realize in the last pages , to repeat the same pattern of behaviour towards his son as his father did to him . No less good ...
... accept love , imprisoned within himself and , for all his intelligence and his self - knowledge , doomed , as we realize in the last pages , to repeat the same pattern of behaviour towards his son as his father did to him . No less good ...
Page 129
... is prolix is so vulgar in expression and so coarse in feeling that it is impossible for the reader to accept him either as a fitting chorus to the tragedy or as a fitting exponent THE SOUTHERN NOVEL BETWEEN THE WARS 129.
... is prolix is so vulgar in expression and so coarse in feeling that it is impossible for the reader to accept him either as a fitting chorus to the tragedy or as a fitting exponent THE SOUTHERN NOVEL BETWEEN THE WARS 129.
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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