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... reader will cooperate to persuade himself that he is in contact with ' real people , ' " she is describing what goes on only in the reading of fiction of a low order of ambi- tion and attainment . The more highly a novelist has or ...
... reader will cooperate to persuade himself that he is in contact with ' real people , ' " she is describing what goes on only in the reading of fiction of a low order of ambi- tion and attainment . The more highly a novelist has or ...
Page 263
... reader's friend , ” and his job is to elucidate Maggie both to herself and to the reader , to set her and her ardors of emotion in perspective . So when Maggie says to him : " Is it not right to resign our- selves entirely , whatever ...
... reader's friend , ” and his job is to elucidate Maggie both to herself and to the reader , to set her and her ardors of emotion in perspective . So when Maggie says to him : " Is it not right to resign our- selves entirely , whatever ...
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... reader takes up the novel to read . But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf , we , as readers , are as it were at the cutting edge of the characters ' minds ; we share the continuous present of their consciousness ...
... reader takes up the novel to read . But with Joyce and Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf , we , as readers , are as it were at the cutting edge of the characters ' minds ; we share the continuous present of their consciousness ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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