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Page 105
But symbols, if they are successful, transcend what we may call their prose
translations. If true symbols, they can never be reduced to what their creator
believes they stand for. It is an index of Godwin's successful use of symbol that
the reader ...
But symbols, if they are successful, transcend what we may call their prose
translations. If true symbols, they can never be reduced to what their creator
believes they stand for. It is an index of Godwin's successful use of symbol that
the reader ...
Page 195
In Dombey and Son, the symbol of money power is Mr. Dombey himself, to
whose pride of position as the British merchant everything must be sacrificed —
affections, wife, children. The money power he represents drags classes higher, ...
In Dombey and Son, the symbol of money power is Mr. Dombey himself, to
whose pride of position as the British merchant everything must be sacrificed —
affections, wife, children. The money power he represents drags classes higher, ...
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Mrs. Moore seems to me a wholly successful symbol. What she means cannot be
paraphrased, though one might make many guesses about her significance. She
is among other things obviously a Magna Mater figure, older than English and ...
Mrs. Moore seems to me a wholly successful symbol. What she means cannot be
paraphrased, though one might make many guesses about her significance. She
is among other things obviously a Magna Mater figure, older than English and ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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