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... James family , then , evil was not an abstract qual- ity but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his ...
... James family , then , evil was not an abstract qual- ity but something known , painfully , at first hand , and the sense of evil is powerfully implicit in Henry James's work , felt sometimes as the corruption of innocence , as in his ...
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... James's in the 1880's , when assassi- nation was a frequently employed weapon in political war . fare . However removed it may be from revolutionary poli- tics as we know them , as they are mirrored in , for example , Malraux's Storm in ...
... James's in the 1880's , when assassi- nation was a frequently employed weapon in political war . fare . However removed it may be from revolutionary poli- tics as we know them , as they are mirrored in , for example , Malraux's Storm in ...
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... James's technical innovations and all his attempts to make of the novel a self - contained whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that ...
... James's technical innovations and all his attempts to make of the novel a self - contained whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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