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... reader is concerned , without it the most profound apprehensions of man's fate count for nothing . Only through character can the novel- ist's apprehensions of man's fate be uttered at all . When Mrs Leavis , in Fiction and the Reading ...
... reader is concerned , without it the most profound apprehensions of man's fate count for nothing . Only through character can the novel- ist's apprehensions of man's fate be uttered at all . When Mrs Leavis , in Fiction and the Reading ...
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... reader . The latter is of fundamental importance in Sterne . He is saying in effect to the reader : You believe you think logically , that one thought follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in control of your thoughts , that ...
... reader . The latter is of fundamental importance in Sterne . He is saying in effect to the reader : You believe you think logically , that one thought follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in control of your thoughts , that ...
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... reader's friend ' , and his job is to elucidate Maggie both to herself and to the reader , to set her and her ardours of emotion in perspective . So when Maggie says to him : ' Is it not right to resign ourselves entirely , what- ever ...
... reader's friend ' , and his job is to elucidate Maggie both to herself and to the reader , to set her and her ardours of emotion in perspective . So when Maggie says to him : ' Is it not right to resign ourselves entirely , what- ever ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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