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... literature , had of course occurred in the arts before . Until about the fifteenth century , for instance , there ... literature round about the years 1580-90 , a change so radical as to appear a new mutation in literature : the sudden ...
... literature , had of course occurred in the arts before . Until about the fifteenth century , for instance , there ... literature round about the years 1580-90 , a change so radical as to appear a new mutation in literature : the sudden ...
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... literature ; and then , by becoming part of Fielding , Cervantes became part of the English novel . The drama apart , the only works in English before Bunyan that have the quality of novels as we know them today , though they do not ...
... literature ; and then , by becoming part of Fielding , Cervantes became part of the English novel . The drama apart , the only works in English before Bunyan that have the quality of novels as we know them today , though they do not ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Allen. Literary Criticism in Penguins LITERATURE AND CRITICISM H. Coombes Literature and Criticism is concerned above all with the bricks and mortar of writing - words . There are chapters on Rhythm ...
A Short Critical History Walter Allen. Literary Criticism in Penguins LITERATURE AND CRITICISM H. Coombes Literature and Criticism is concerned above all with the bricks and mortar of writing - words . There are chapters on Rhythm ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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