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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... hero in The Red Badge of Courage or the boy Nick in the early stories of Hemingway , on the individual human being alone , testing life . And there are times when the individual becomes more than an individual and seems to contain all ...
... hero in The Red Badge of Courage or the boy Nick in the early stories of Hemingway , on the individual human being alone , testing life . And there are times when the individual becomes more than an individual and seems to contain all ...
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... hero , since the anti - hero is as ancient in fiction as the hero and is indeed the other face of the hero - the possessor of a mediocre degree in history from Oxford and a driving obsession to avoid the phoney in life , becomes in turn ...
... hero , since the anti - hero is as ancient in fiction as the hero and is indeed the other face of the hero - the possessor of a mediocre degree in history from Oxford and a driving obsession to avoid the phoney in life , becomes in turn ...
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... hero is a Negro ; certainly as a symbol of any specific Negro problem he has disappeared altogether . That this is intentional is plain from the incidental symbolism , as , for example , in the factory scenes of Negroes working ...
... hero is a Negro ; certainly as a symbol of any specific Negro problem he has disappeared altogether . That this is intentional is plain from the incidental symbolism , as , for example , in the factory scenes of Negroes working ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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