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 85
... telling us , is the truth about man , will - less man , forever the victim of circum- stances . The tragedy , if tragedy there is , lies in the implicit contrast between what a man expects of life , what he is born and brought up to ...
... telling us , is the truth about man , will - less man , forever the victim of circum- stances . The tragedy , if tragedy there is , lies in the implicit contrast between what a man expects of life , what he is born and brought up to ...
Page 96
... tell honestly the things I have found true ' about bull - fighting . He wrote his novels and stories in order to tell honestly the things he had found true about life ; but his criterion of truth was almost what could be assessed in ...
... tell honestly the things I have found true ' about bull - fighting . He wrote his novels and stories in order to tell honestly the things he had found true about life ; but his criterion of truth was almost what could be assessed in ...
Page 233
... telling is very confused . The Spanish characters tend to suffer from a poster - like idealization , and the two women in England who love Charing are very shadowy indeed . What remains of interest is the self- portrait , as one assumes ...
... telling is very confused . The Spanish characters tend to suffer from a poster - like idealization , and the two women in England who love Charing are very shadowy indeed . What remains of interest is the self- portrait , as one assumes ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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