Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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... Sutpen . In a sense , Absalom , Absalom ! is a detective story with Quentin Compson as the obsessed detective , and , in its final version , Sutpen's rise and fall and their consequences are as it were the creation of Quentin and his ...
... Sutpen . In a sense , Absalom , Absalom ! is a detective story with Quentin Compson as the obsessed detective , and , in its final version , Sutpen's rise and fall and their consequences are as it were the creation of Quentin and his ...
Page 123
... Sutpen is presented in the first chapter of the novel ; General Compson's and his son's follow in the next four . We begin to understand the roots of Sutpen's behaviour . Born among the poorest of poor whites in West Virginia , he had ...
... Sutpen is presented in the first chapter of the novel ; General Compson's and his son's follow in the next four . We begin to understand the roots of Sutpen's behaviour . Born among the poorest of poor whites in West Virginia , he had ...
Page 124
... Sutpen's Hundred , it is Henry who shoots Charles to prevent his marrying Judith , shoots him not in order to prevent incest , for he already knows Charles is his half - brother , but because he has just discovered he has Negro blood in ...
... Sutpen's Hundred , it is Henry who shoots Charles to prevent his marrying Judith , shoots him not in order to prevent incest , for he already knows Charles is his half - brother , but because he has just discovered he has Negro blood in ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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