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Page 128
... reality , the reality of life shaped by the forces of history , or the reality of work , of traditional skills and professions . These realities give them reality . And what is remarkable is that only in very rare instances are they ...
... reality , the reality of life shaped by the forces of history , or the reality of work , of traditional skills and professions . These realities give them reality . And what is remarkable is that only in very rare instances are they ...
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... reality . Indeed , Conrad so sets them in the scene , so poses them , as to persuade us not only of their ordinary reality as lifelike characters but of their symbolic reality . An obvious instance is the method of portraying Nostromo ...
... reality . Indeed , Conrad so sets them in the scene , so poses them , as to persuade us not only of their ordinary reality as lifelike characters but of their symbolic reality . An obvious instance is the method of portraying Nostromo ...
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... reality and its nature , as is made plain in the first chapter , in which the hero Rickie , then an undergraduate , is dis- cussing with his friends the metaphysical problem , Does a cow exist when there is no one there to see it ...
... reality and its nature , as is made plain in the first chapter , in which the hero Rickie , then an undergraduate , is dis- cussing with his friends the metaphysical problem , Does a cow exist when there is no one there to see it ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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