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 252
... moral compulsion ought to be to understand . I'm not saying tout comprendre , c'est tout pardonner , far from it . But I am saying that passing moral judgments should be open to you only when you understand what you're judging , not ...
... moral compulsion ought to be to understand . I'm not saying tout comprendre , c'est tout pardonner , far from it . But I am saying that passing moral judgments should be open to you only when you understand what you're judging , not ...
Page 253
... moral judgments , whether directly or by implication , stands him in such good stead . Harris is a bad lot ; he trails unhappiness and disaster in his wake . And yet — perhaps Swan's is the final word on him : ' If we want to weigh the ...
... moral judgments , whether directly or by implication , stands him in such good stead . Harris is a bad lot ; he trails unhappiness and disaster in his wake . And yet — perhaps Swan's is the final word on him : ' If we want to weigh the ...
Page 281
... moral serious- ness that could be made apparent without the aid of evangelical puffing and blowing . It was precisely the element of moral seriousness that one hadn't spotted in Lucky Jim and that is increasingly evident in the later ...
... moral serious- ness that could be made apparent without the aid of evangelical puffing and blowing . It was precisely the element of moral seriousness that one hadn't spotted in Lucky Jim and that is increasingly evident in the later ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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