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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... comic rendering of the German mind in its inordinate romanticism . When the novel appeared it was compared widely to Dostoevsky , and Lewis was admittedly under Dostoevsky's influence when he wrote it . But now the novel reads as though ...
... comic rendering of the German mind in its inordinate romanticism . When the novel appeared it was compared widely to Dostoevsky , and Lewis was admittedly under Dostoevsky's influence when he wrote it . But now the novel reads as though ...
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... comic spirit . Waugh is as detached as he was in Decline and Fall ; yet there is a difference in his attitude . When Paul Pennyfeather sees the impossibility of Margot Metroland in prison , one feels that Waugh is seeing it too ; he is ...
... comic spirit . Waugh is as detached as he was in Decline and Fall ; yet there is a difference in his attitude . When Paul Pennyfeather sees the impossibility of Margot Metroland in prison , one feels that Waugh is seeing it too ; he is ...
Page 242
... comic : in Cary's novels the comic and the tragic are different sides of the same coin . In the end , the creative imagination becomes equated with the spirit of life itself . Artistic development in the usual sense is absent from ...
... comic : in Cary's novels the comic and the tragic are different sides of the same coin . In the end , the creative imagination becomes equated with the spirit of life itself . Artistic development in the usual sense is absent from ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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