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 xix
... novelist has come to his subject - America or some aspect of America with a pattern in his mind of what life in America should be which he has to set against the actualities of American life in order to judge them . Dreiser is an almost ...
... novelist has come to his subject - America or some aspect of America with a pattern in his mind of what life in America should be which he has to set against the actualities of American life in order to judge them . Dreiser is an almost ...
Page xxi
... novelist is free . All the same , the English novelist gains much from the tradition of which he is , willy - nilly , a part . He can see himself as a member of a body of craftsmen whose existence goes relatively far back in time ...
... novelist is free . All the same , the English novelist gains much from the tradition of which he is , willy - nilly , a part . He can see himself as a member of a body of craftsmen whose existence goes relatively far back in time ...
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... novelist is Robert Liddell , an unprolific writer whose finest novel , The Last Enchantments , was published in 1948 ... novelist . She too brings to its contemplation of human beings and their mutual reactions a rare degree of ...
... novelist is Robert Liddell , an unprolific writer whose finest novel , The Last Enchantments , was published in 1948 ... novelist . She too brings to its contemplation of human beings and their mutual reactions a rare degree of ...
Contents
British I | 1 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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