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... literary form and my opinions on individual novelists will , I imagine , be obvious enough to those familiar with the field . Wherever possible , I have given specific references in the text . Here , there is room only for a list of the ...
... literary form and my opinions on individual novelists will , I imagine , be obvious enough to those familiar with the field . Wherever possible , I have given specific references in the text . Here , there is room only for a list of the ...
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... literary appreciation . For here is a sound and unpretentious teacher who knows how little most of us know and who can help us , without scorn or pedantry , to tell sense from nonsense , sincerity from affectation , and beauty from dead ...
... literary appreciation . For here is a sound and unpretentious teacher who knows how little most of us know and who can help us , without scorn or pedantry , to tell sense from nonsense , sincerity from affectation , and beauty from dead ...
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... literary criticism . With conviction backed up by thorough investigations , she puts to flight the notion that only ' literature ' and ' the few who can talk intelligently of Stendhal , Proust and Henry James ' have been important in ...
... literary criticism . With conviction backed up by thorough investigations , she puts to flight the notion that only ' literature ' and ' the few who can talk intelligently of Stendhal , Proust and Henry James ' have been important in ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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