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... acters write to one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles ... acter's suffering , analyzing , experiencing mind . And we not only have the character as he sees and presents him- self ...
... acters write to one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles ... acter's suffering , analyzing , experiencing mind . And we not only have the character as he sees and presents him- self ...
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... acters , may have got from Shakespeare's Fluellen . Whether Smollett influenced Joyce or not , his influence on later novelists has been great . He was Dickens's favorite novelist as a boy , and Dickens took over and carried fur- ther ...
... acters , may have got from Shakespeare's Fluellen . Whether Smollett influenced Joyce or not , his influence on later novelists has been great . He was Dickens's favorite novelist as a boy , and Dickens took over and carried fur- ther ...
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... acters . It is not an intellectual poetry , like Meredith's ; it is much more primitive and magical , and always it heightens the significance of the characters and the reader's consciousness of their tragic stature . And , as Hardy ...
... acters . It is not an intellectual poetry , like Meredith's ; it is much more primitive and magical , and always it heightens the significance of the characters and the reader's consciousness of their tragic stature . And , as Hardy ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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