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
... described in this novel . And beyond this question lies another . Isn't the whole conception of life as described in None Shall Look Back a literary abstraction ? In retrospect , the characters in this novel seem static , fixed in ...
... described in this novel . And beyond this question lies another . Isn't the whole conception of life as described in None Shall Look Back a literary abstraction ? In retrospect , the characters in this novel seem static , fixed in ...
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... described there to be acceptable as a representation of the real world . His world , indeed , suggests the real world distorted by private nightmare . Wilson's most considered attempt to render the real world , to show a human being ...
... described there to be acceptable as a representation of the real world . His world , indeed , suggests the real world distorted by private nightmare . Wilson's most considered attempt to render the real world , to show a human being ...
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... described is really the interior world of his characters . It is projected with great brilliance : in his ability to suggest tropical heat and squalor , the seediness of the exotic , Bowles is not surpassed by Graham Greene . Bowles's ...
... described is really the interior world of his characters . It is projected with great brilliance : in his ability to suggest tropical heat and squalor , the seediness of the exotic , Bowles is not surpassed by Graham Greene . Bowles's ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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