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... genres , and the triumph of the domestic novel over other sub - genres of fiction . ( Of course , there were always gifted writers who did not want to serve the commercial caste ; they were often recognizable by their anger and ...
... genres , and the triumph of the domestic novel over other sub - genres of fiction . ( Of course , there were always gifted writers who did not want to serve the commercial caste ; they were often recognizable by their anger and ...
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... genre terms , the triumph of the serious novel was a Second Front in the war which fiction waged against poetry in the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- turies and by which it became the dominant literary genre . Little by little , as ...
... genre terms , the triumph of the serious novel was a Second Front in the war which fiction waged against poetry in the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- turies and by which it became the dominant literary genre . Little by little , as ...
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... genre - the genre of James , of Proust , of Nabokov . And as in those others , the proud privilege covers impover- ishment , the possessions compensate for lost authenticity ; the sumptuousness is shot through with guilt and fear ...
... genre - the genre of James , of Proust , of Nabokov . And as in those others , the proud privilege covers impover- ishment , the possessions compensate for lost authenticity ; the sumptuousness is shot through with guilt and fear ...
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1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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