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... reader did , at the moment of being writer or reader . But the novelists ' point was often that intelligence of their kind would preclude the kind of courage and loyalty , faith and chivalry , which the gentle- man demonstrated in ...
... reader did , at the moment of being writer or reader . But the novelists ' point was often that intelligence of their kind would preclude the kind of courage and loyalty , faith and chivalry , which the gentle- man demonstrated in ...
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... reader is , as reader , the guardian of sense , beauty , and values , this will be a profoundly paradoxical effort he must make – a dialectical reading . Every moral dignity and comfort impli- cit in the act of reading , of judging ...
... reader is , as reader , the guardian of sense , beauty , and values , this will be a profoundly paradoxical effort he must make – a dialectical reading . Every moral dignity and comfort impli- cit in the act of reading , of judging ...
Page 153
... reader of author to text . In this case , Dr Best becomes as the novel proceeds a cartoon of villainy ; Leonard ceases to be a case of stupidity and tunnel vision , and becomes a naïve but decent human being ; Ross - Donaldson is ...
... reader of author to text . In this case , Dr Best becomes as the novel proceeds a cartoon of villainy ; Leonard ceases to be a case of stupidity and tunnel vision , and becomes a naïve but decent human being ; Ross - Donaldson is ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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