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 52
... theme of the novel being written ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a mystical experience ; he wakes up to find himself detached from his body , free of the bounds of space ...
... theme of the novel being written ; but a little later , while resting before a fashionable ball , the hero undergoes something like a mystical experience ; he wakes up to find himself detached from his body , free of the bounds of space ...
Page 163
... theme is life and the processes of life at a certain place at a certain time . But the processes of life that interest him are those common to the spirochaete , the tiger and man . They are evolutionary processes , relatively ...
... theme is life and the processes of life at a certain place at a certain time . But the processes of life that interest him are those common to the spirochaete , the tiger and man . They are evolutionary processes , relatively ...
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... theme at least , Lady Haslam's tyranny over her family through hypochondria , is already evident . What remains remarkable , of course , is that she is able to handle her themes at their greatest and darkest moment of revelation , when ...
... theme at least , Lady Haslam's tyranny over her family through hypochondria , is already evident . What remains remarkable , of course , is that she is able to handle her themes at their greatest and darkest moment of revelation , when ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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