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 37
... values . ' Only connect ' is the motto of the book : ' Only connect the passion and the prose . ' In some sense at least , Howards End is a symbolic novel about the state of England at the time of writing ; but none of the characters in ...
... values . ' Only connect ' is the motto of the book : ' Only connect the passion and the prose . ' In some sense at least , Howards End is a symbolic novel about the state of England at the time of writing ; but none of the characters in ...
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... Values , except the values that make for the animal survival of the species , are absent from Steinbeck's work -or almost so ; he has a generous indignation at the spectacle of human suffering . But apart from this , he is the celebrant ...
... Values , except the values that make for the animal survival of the species , are absent from Steinbeck's work -or almost so ; he has a generous indignation at the spectacle of human suffering . But apart from this , he is the celebrant ...
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... values of childhood are better than those of maturity . These conclu- sions do not seem to me contradicted by Breakfast at Tiffany's ( 1958 ) , even though Capote seems to have broken out of his narcissistic universe into the strictly ...
... values of childhood are better than those of maturity . These conclu- sions do not seem to me contradicted by Breakfast at Tiffany's ( 1958 ) , even though Capote seems to have broken out of his narcissistic universe into the strictly ...
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