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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... imagination ' , Chase writes , " New England Puritanism , with its grand metaphors of election and damnation , its opposition of the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness , its eternal and autonomous contraries of good and evil ...
... imagination ' , Chase writes , " New England Puritanism , with its grand metaphors of election and damnation , its opposition of the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness , its eternal and autonomous contraries of good and evil ...
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... imaginative sympathy . Nor has he in Dead Man Leading ( 1937 ) . Harry Johnson is an explorer who deserts the ... imagination . Every so often in Dead Man Leading , however , Pritchett allows the comic writer in him to take over ...
... imaginative sympathy . Nor has he in Dead Man Leading ( 1937 ) . Harry Johnson is an explorer who deserts the ... imagination . Every so often in Dead Man Leading , however , Pritchett allows the comic writer in him to take over ...
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... imagination , for the creative imagination is the quality he most values in human beings . And the creative action of the imagination is un- ceasing and continuous , each man trying , in Cary's words , ' to create a universe which suits ...
... imagination , for the creative imagination is the quality he most values in human beings . And the creative action of the imagination is un- ceasing and continuous , each man trying , in Cary's words , ' to create a universe which suits ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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