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 xxi
... existence goes relatively far back in time . Given reasonable powers of self - criticism , he will know what he is likely to be able to accomplish in relation to his forbears . Or he may react violently against one or more of them . He ...
... existence goes relatively far back in time . Given reasonable powers of self - criticism , he will know what he is likely to be able to accomplish in relation to his forbears . Or he may react violently against one or more of them . He ...
Page 241
... existence . The village , dominated as it is by squire and parson , cannot stand in any adequate way for the world of traditional , democratic values because it bears almost no relation to the actual world in which those values have to ...
... existence . The village , dominated as it is by squire and parson , cannot stand in any adequate way for the world of traditional , democratic values because it bears almost no relation to the actual world in which those values have to ...
Page 305
... existence ' . But the connections seem to me stylistic only . The action narrated and the myth on which it is based neither mirror nor illuminate each other ; and the moral intention of the book is rendered in terms so shadowy and ...
... existence ' . But the connections seem to me stylistic only . The action narrated and the myth on which it is based neither mirror nor illuminate each other ; and the moral intention of the book is rendered in terms so shadowy and ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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