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 xxi
... existence goes relatively far back in time . Given reasonable powers of self - criticism , he will know what he is likely to be able to accomplish in relation to his forbears . Or he may react violently against one or more of them . He ...
... existence goes relatively far back in time . Given reasonable powers of self - criticism , he will know what he is likely to be able to accomplish in relation to his forbears . Or he may react violently against one or more of them . He ...
Page 153
... existence even is too high a term . They have a strange , stony will - to - persist , that is all . HESE WORDS of Lawrence's could apply to the characters of Studs Lonigan ; in fact , they appear in his introduction to Edward Dahlberg's ...
... existence even is too high a term . They have a strange , stony will - to - persist , that is all . HESE WORDS of Lawrence's could apply to the characters of Studs Lonigan ; in fact , they appear in his introduction to Edward Dahlberg's ...
Page 305
... existence ' . But the connections seem to me stylistic only . The action narrated and the myth on which it is based neither mirror nor illuminate each other ; and the moral intention of the book is rendered in terms so shadowy and ...
... existence ' . But the connections seem to me stylistic only . The action narrated and the myth on which it is based neither mirror nor illuminate each other ; and the moral intention of the book is rendered in terms so shadowy and ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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