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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... less interested in redemption than in the melodrama of the eternal struggle of good and evil , less interested in incarnation and reconciliation than in alienation and disorder . ' All these deep - seated historical factors have ...
... less interested in redemption than in the melodrama of the eternal struggle of good and evil , less interested in incarnation and reconciliation than in alienation and disorder . ' All these deep - seated historical factors have ...
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... less well in Gerhardi's later books . The most ambitious of these is Resurrection ( 1934 ) , which Gerhardi himself calls an autobiographical novel . Certainly the hero and narrator is a novelist who has shared Gerhardi's strange ...
... less well in Gerhardi's later books . The most ambitious of these is Resurrection ( 1934 ) , which Gerhardi himself calls an autobiographical novel . Certainly the hero and narrator is a novelist who has shared Gerhardi's strange ...
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... less than in religion . Cary's beliefs are central to that tradition , and in his fiction , in To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth above all , he has re - stated it for our time . After To Be a Pilgrim there was a decline in Cary's ...
... less than in religion . Cary's beliefs are central to that tradition , and in his fiction , in To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth above all , he has re - stated it for our time . After To Be a Pilgrim there was a decline in Cary's ...
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