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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... seems to have recaptured the Manichaean sensibility . The American imagination , like the New England Puritan mind itself , seems less interested in redemption than in the melodrama of the eternal struggle of good and evil , less ...
... seems to have recaptured the Manichaean sensibility . The American imagination , like the New England Puritan mind itself , seems less interested in redemption than in the melodrama of the eternal struggle of good and evil , less ...
Page 186
... seems Cozzens's abiding view - stoical , unillusioned- of man's life in society : ' ... Yes , there'll be more war ... seems , ' said Abner . ' Yes , so it seems , ' said Judge Coates , ' and so it is , and so it will be ! And that's ...
... seems Cozzens's abiding view - stoical , unillusioned- of man's life in society : ' ... Yes , there'll be more war ... seems , ' said Abner . ' Yes , so it seems , ' said Judge Coates , ' and so it is , and so it will be ! And that's ...
Page 286
... seems to me the weakest section of the work in this respect : ' This Grecian world was already being invaded by the odours of the forgotten city - promontories where the sweating sea - captains had boozed and eaten until their ...
... seems to me the weakest section of the work in this respect : ' This Grecian world was already being invaded by the odours of the forgotten city - promontories where the sweating sea - captains had boozed and eaten until their ...
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