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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... experience , with the depth of the individual human being's response to experience . He believed that both the quality of experience of human beings and their capacity for experience had become impoverished by the very nature of modern ...
... experience , with the depth of the individual human being's response to experience . He believed that both the quality of experience of human beings and their capacity for experience had become impoverished by the very nature of modern ...
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... experience and finds himself in purgatory . All this is fascinating , an account , one is persuaded , of a genuine experience in which the narrator finds himself suddenly liberated , to use his own images , from the hound Habit and the ...
... experience and finds himself in purgatory . All this is fascinating , an account , one is persuaded , of a genuine experience in which the narrator finds himself suddenly liberated , to use his own images , from the hound Habit and the ...
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... experience , the quest for self - discovery construed almost entirely in sexual terms . What is remarkable is the innocence there seems no other word for it - with which the central character , a boy who is plainly Welch himself ...
... experience , the quest for self - discovery construed almost entirely in sexual terms . What is remarkable is the innocence there seems no other word for it - with which the central character , a boy who is plainly Welch himself ...
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