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... person narrator in a novel like David Copperfield , or the assump- tion that we must make when reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves that we are overhearing half a dozen people talking to themselves in interior monologue at key - moments ...
... person narrator in a novel like David Copperfield , or the assump- tion that we must make when reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves that we are overhearing half a dozen people talking to themselves in interior monologue at key - moments ...
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... person in my station , Master Copperfield ! Father and me was brought up at a foundation school for boys ; and mother , she was likewise brought up at a public sort of charitable establishment . They taught us a deal of umbleness ; we ...
... person in my station , Master Copperfield ! Father and me was brought up at a foundation school for boys ; and mother , she was likewise brought up at a public sort of charitable establishment . They taught us a deal of umbleness ; we ...
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... person invented by a novelist ; but may also mean a person distinguished by odd behaviour , an eccen- tric . We call a man of strongly marked idiosyncrasy a ' character ' ; and English novelists have always tended to see their imaginary ...
... person invented by a novelist ; but may also mean a person distinguished by odd behaviour , an eccen- tric . We call a man of strongly marked idiosyncrasy a ' character ' ; and English novelists have always tended to see their imaginary ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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