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... Words themselves are , of course , a conservative and conserving element ; inevitably they recall the long generations of human ex- perience that have moulded them , and the writer has always been less radical than the innovator in ...
... Words themselves are , of course , a conservative and conserving element ; inevitably they recall the long generations of human ex- perience that have moulded them , and the writer has always been less radical than the innovator in ...
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... words is not to call it a species of symbolist poem - even if some novelists may be quite happy at such a prospect - for words themselves are made up out of lived human meanings , which is a complementary lesson we may learn from the ...
... words is not to call it a species of symbolist poem - even if some novelists may be quite happy at such a prospect - for words themselves are made up out of lived human meanings , which is a complementary lesson we may learn from the ...
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... word ' environment ' , it means not the places named in a novel , like Chicago , let us say . Environment refers instead to the places filled in a book , filled with words that might indeed pre- tend to describe Chicago , but which in ...
... word ' environment ' , it means not the places named in a novel , like Chicago , let us say . Environment refers instead to the places filled in a book , filled with words that might indeed pre- tend to describe Chicago , but which in ...
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Preface to the First Edition | 6 |
Preface to the Second Edition | 8 |
The Novel No Longer Novel II | 11 |
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