The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire |
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Page 34
... characters are enacted on the stage of an elaborate theatre the newspaper , the editor , etc. - into which we peer from an odd angle . The effect of this is to stress its character as an anecdote . We don't believe that these events ...
... characters are enacted on the stage of an elaborate theatre the newspaper , the editor , etc. - into which we peer from an odd angle . The effect of this is to stress its character as an anecdote . We don't believe that these events ...
Page 90
... character of Charles Dickens , and the second in the character of a symbolist . The snow equals the mist equals the ocean equals death equals Ibsen . The real artistic success of Dubliners is to be found in the stories ' Ivy Day in the ...
... character of Charles Dickens , and the second in the character of a symbolist . The snow equals the mist equals the ocean equals death equals Ibsen . The real artistic success of Dubliners is to be found in the stories ' Ivy Day in the ...
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... character the reader can like enough to trust as his own representative in the world of the novel ; nor can he portray the figures with whom that character has his major emotional dealings vividly enough for us to believe in them as ...
... character the reader can like enough to trust as his own representative in the world of the novel ; nor can he portray the figures with whom that character has his major emotional dealings vividly enough for us to believe in them as ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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