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 52
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
Page 106
... past ; the novel is a dis- covery of the past , a coming to terms with it . It is in essence a young intellectual's imaginative reconstruction of the lives of his grand- parents and their families and relations , pioneers in the opening ...
... past ; the novel is a dis- covery of the past , a coming to terms with it . It is in essence a young intellectual's imaginative reconstruction of the lives of his grand- parents and their families and relations , pioneers in the opening ...
Page 270
... past was like a kind of collective subconscious , some- thing to which the respectable , censored mind does not normally have access , something powerfully charged with love and hate , pride and violence , which , in given circumstances ...
... past was like a kind of collective subconscious , some- thing to which the respectable , censored mind does not normally have access , something powerfully charged with love and hate , pride and violence , which , in given circumstances ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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