Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 40
Page 99
... possible . It is grossly repetitive , grossly romantic , grossly inflated , sometimes , it seems , no more than a torrent of sound , so that the only possible comparison seems to be with the later Swinburne . It is much more heavily ...
... possible . It is grossly repetitive , grossly romantic , grossly inflated , sometimes , it seems , no more than a torrent of sound , so that the only possible comparison seems to be with the later Swinburne . It is much more heavily ...
Page 186
... possible , so much has to be done by so many people that , on the face of it , it is im- possible . Well , every day we do it ; and every day , come hell , come high water , we're going to have to go on doing it as well as we can ...
... possible , so much has to be done by so many people that , on the face of it , it is im- possible . Well , every day we do it ; and every day , come hell , come high water , we're going to have to go on doing it as well as we can ...
Page 307
... possible to talk of ' Southerns ' as we talk of Westerns , and for similar reasons . If , as Flannery O'Connor has complained , most Southern writers are considered by the world outside ' to be unhappy combinations of Poe and Erskine ...
... possible to talk of ' Southerns ' as we talk of Westerns , and for similar reasons . If , as Flannery O'Connor has complained , most Southern writers are considered by the world outside ' to be unhappy combinations of Poe and Erskine ...
Contents
British I | 1 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Afternoon Men American fiction American novel appeared attitude become behaviour called centre comedy comic Communist Compson consciousness contemporary criticism death described dream Dreiser E. M. Forster Eliot Ellen Glasgow England English novel Eustace everything existence experience expression eyes fantasy father Faulkner feels figure Gatsby George Eliot girl Gopher Prairie hero homosexual human imagination innocent Jane Austen Joyce Lawrence Lewis literary lives Lonigan look means mind Miss Lonelyhearts moral narrator nature Negro never night novelist perhaps political Powys's prose realize relation rendered satire scarcely scene seems sense social society Sons and Lovers South story Studs Studs Lonigan style successful Sutpen symbol theme things thirties tion tradition tragic Ulysses Vile Bodies Virginia whole wife Willa Cather Winesburg woman women Women in Love words writing written young