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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... things ; and to be content with the surface of things is , these events seem severally to argue , to be content with unreality . Indeed , this is precisely the burden of Virginia Woolf's attack on the Edwardian novelists . In her essay ...
... things ; and to be content with the surface of things is , these events seem severally to argue , to be content with unreality . Indeed , this is precisely the burden of Virginia Woolf's attack on the Edwardian novelists . In her essay ...
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... things . One says ' things ' because in practice his external approach to human beings led to their being seen as things . In this he is akin to Smollett , whose conception of character - drawing was also derived very consciously from ...
... things . One says ' things ' because in practice his external approach to human beings led to their being seen as things . In this he is akin to Smollett , whose conception of character - drawing was also derived very consciously from ...
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... things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with meat except to bury it . There were many words you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had ...
... things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with meat except to bury it . There were many words you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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