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 85
... figure . This , Dreiser seems to be telling us , is the truth about man , will - less man , forever the victim of circum- stances . The tragedy , if tragedy there is , lies in the implicit contrast between what a man expects of life ...
... figure . This , Dreiser seems to be telling us , is the truth about man , will - less man , forever the victim of circum- stances . The tragedy , if tragedy there is , lies in the implicit contrast between what a man expects of life ...
Page 92
... figure who was a completely adequate equivalent to himself at the time of writing . Stahr , too , is a desperately sick man , disenchanted with life , but striving still to work , to make something out of chaos , a lonely artist ...
... figure who was a completely adequate equivalent to himself at the time of writing . Stahr , too , is a desperately sick man , disenchanted with life , but striving still to work , to make something out of chaos , a lonely artist ...
Page 120
... figure at once comic , pathetic and - because of her faith and innocence of great human dignity . This first chapter of Light in August is a splendid example of how simply and directly Faulkner can write when he wants to . And though ...
... figure at once comic , pathetic and - because of her faith and innocence of great human dignity . This first chapter of Light in August is a splendid example of how simply and directly Faulkner can write when he wants to . And though ...
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