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 51
... narrator , a young British officer very similar in origins and character to the hero in Futility , is related and with whom he lives , as a member of a British military mission , in Harbin . In both novels the nature of the comedy is ...
... narrator , a young British officer very similar in origins and character to the hero in Futility , is related and with whom he lives , as a member of a British military mission , in Harbin . In both novels the nature of the comedy is ...
Page 53
... narrator and the other characters existed in a perfect equilibrium ; the narrator was the ideal mediator between them and us . In Resurrection and the earlier novels , My Sinful Earth and Pending Heaven , the narrator tends to blot out ...
... narrator and the other characters existed in a perfect equilibrium ; the narrator was the ideal mediator between them and us . In Resurrection and the earlier novels , My Sinful Earth and Pending Heaven , the narrator tends to blot out ...
Page 125
... narrator who participated , without understanding them , in the events described allows Tate to move backwards and forwards in time and to comment , through Lacy , on the events them- selves . Lacy is at once narrator and chorus , and ...
... narrator who participated , without understanding them , in the events described allows Tate to move backwards and forwards in time and to comment , through Lacy , on the events them- selves . Lacy is at once narrator and chorus , and ...
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British I | 1 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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