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Page 247
... called his ' prig heroes ' , a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called ' the ache of modernism ' . In a sense , he represents Hardy's own values : In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical coun- tenance of ...
... called his ' prig heroes ' , a man conscious all the time of what Hardy himself called ' the ache of modernism ' . In a sense , he represents Hardy's own values : In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical coun- tenance of ...
Page 275
... called a ' fine central intelligence ' , Maisie's in What Maisie Knew , Strether's in The Ambassadors . As R. P. Blackmur has written in his introduction to his edition of James's prefaces called The Art of the Novel : The novel was not ...
... called a ' fine central intelligence ' , Maisie's in What Maisie Knew , Strether's in The Ambassadors . As R. P. Blackmur has written in his introduction to his edition of James's prefaces called The Art of the Novel : The novel was not ...
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... called Realism . Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist ; he saw himself as a French classicist , and dismissed Naturalism as an ' ineptitude ' . Certainly the theory of Naturalism leaves out a great deal ...
... called Realism . Flaubert himself refused to be called either Realist or Naturalist ; he saw himself as a French classicist , and dismissed Naturalism as an ' ineptitude ' . Certainly the theory of Naturalism leaves out a great deal ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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