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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... seen , the unconscious , to which he preaches something like passivity on the part of the conscious . This accounts for the difficulty we experience on first reading Lawrence . We deduce emotion from gesture . But Lawrence's problem was ...
... seen , the unconscious , to which he preaches something like passivity on the part of the conscious . This accounts for the difficulty we experience on first reading Lawrence . We deduce emotion from gesture . But Lawrence's problem was ...
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... seen as almost entirely non- intellectual ; she possesses , in Dreiser's words , ' a largeness of feeling not ... seen as much the same thing . Indeed , animal imagery runs throughout The Financier . Cowperwood and his mistress Aileen ...
... seen as almost entirely non- intellectual ; she possesses , in Dreiser's words , ' a largeness of feeling not ... seen as much the same thing . Indeed , animal imagery runs throughout The Financier . Cowperwood and his mistress Aileen ...
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... seen at its clearest in his handling of speech . He renders with horrible fidelity the degraded mutilations of English as spoken by the children of European immigrants : ' My ticher calls id Xmas , but de kids call id Chrizmas . Id's a ...
... seen at its clearest in his handling of speech . He renders with horrible fidelity the degraded mutilations of English as spoken by the children of European immigrants : ' My ticher calls id Xmas , but de kids call id Chrizmas . Id's a ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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