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 58
... rendered no more conventionally than the children ; they are curiously reluctant pirates , the last , half - hearted remnants of a dying race . They are in some ways more at the mercy of the children than the children are of them . Yet ...
... rendered no more conventionally than the children ; they are curiously reluctant pirates , the last , half - hearted remnants of a dying race . They are in some ways more at the mercy of the children than the children are of them . Yet ...
Page 59
... rendered , one feels , exactly , and her essential being is unparaphrasable ; rendered partly by a process of indirection , by a kind of symbolism that often has reference to the strange life of animals , as in the chapter that ...
... rendered , one feels , exactly , and her essential being is unparaphrasable ; rendered partly by a process of indirection , by a kind of symbolism that often has reference to the strange life of animals , as in the chapter that ...
Page 305
... rendered in terms so shadowy and bizarre as to make it im- possible for it to be taken seriously . Indeed , the novel is at best where it is at its most fantastic , as in the suicide of the monkey , the grotesque pathos of which touches ...
... rendered in terms so shadowy and bizarre as to make it im- possible for it to be taken seriously . Indeed , the novel is at best where it is at its most fantastic , as in the suicide of the monkey , the grotesque pathos of which touches ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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