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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Page 78
... certainly not to be taken literally as a description of the theories behind Winesburg , Ohio . All the same , Anderson is dealing with grotesques ; Winesburg , Ohio is a parade of grotesques . His theme is estrangement and alienation ...
... certainly not to be taken literally as a description of the theories behind Winesburg , Ohio . All the same , Anderson is dealing with grotesques ; Winesburg , Ohio is a parade of grotesques . His theme is estrangement and alienation ...
Page 238
... certainly lie in its incidentals , its investigation of political truth and the idea of ' Newspeak ' , subjects Orwell had touched on in essays that preceded the novel . And of all his fiction the finest is his fable Animal Farm . The ...
... certainly lie in its incidentals , its investigation of political truth and the idea of ' Newspeak ' , subjects Orwell had touched on in essays that preceded the novel . And of all his fiction the finest is his fable Animal Farm . The ...
Page 244
... certainly Mister Johnson , partly because of its very simplicity . Form was not Cary's strong point and could scarcely have been in view of his method of ' assembling ' his novels ; but in Mister Johnson everything is subordinated to ...
... certainly Mister Johnson , partly because of its very simplicity . Form was not Cary's strong point and could scarcely have been in view of his method of ' assembling ' his novels ; but in Mister Johnson everything is subordinated to ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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