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 xi
... Tradition : I have said nothing about Wuthering Heights because that astonishing work seems to me a kind of sport ... Emily Brontë broke completely , and in the most challenging way , both with the Scott tradition that imposed on the ...
... Tradition : I have said nothing about Wuthering Heights because that astonishing work seems to me a kind of sport ... Emily Brontë broke completely , and in the most challenging way , both with the Scott tradition that imposed on the ...
Page xii
... tradition of which , let us say , Middlemarch is a standard representa- tive . Not one of them has any close kinship with the massive , temperate , moralistic rendering of life and thought we associate with Mr Leavis's " great tradition ...
... tradition of which , let us say , Middlemarch is a standard representa- tive . Not one of them has any close kinship with the massive , temperate , moralistic rendering of life and thought we associate with Mr Leavis's " great tradition ...
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... traditions of the novel as they exist outside England ; he may draw on Dostoevsky or Proust or Joyce , to say nothing of the nineteenth - century French . Nevertheless , while the native English tradition is extraordinarily capable of ...
... traditions of the novel as they exist outside England ; he may draw on Dostoevsky or Proust or Joyce , to say nothing of the nineteenth - century French . Nevertheless , while the native English tradition is extraordinarily capable of ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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