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Page 107
... comedy . Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ; ' Know thyself ! ' is the imperative of every comic writer . Miss Austen began to write as a child and wrote all her life . In her first novels , Sense and ...
... comedy . Comedy deals with the conflict between illusion and reality ; ' Know thyself ! ' is the imperative of every comic writer . Miss Austen began to write as a child and wrote all her life . In her first novels , Sense and ...
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... comedy with no good nature in it at y all . These characters are most evident when he is attacking social in- justice or flaws in the social code . Bumble , Heep , and Gradgrind are typical figures of savage comedy ; ridicule and ...
... comedy with no good nature in it at y all . These characters are most evident when he is attacking social in- justice or flaws in the social code . Bumble , Heep , and Gradgrind are typical figures of savage comedy ; ridicule and ...
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... comedy is less ideal and there is a greater striving after surface realism ; doubtless because the source of the comedy was an actual situation very close to the author . Indeed , in its most vital parts Evan Harrington ( 1861 ) is a ...
... comedy is less ideal and there is a greater striving after surface realism ; doubtless because the source of the comedy was an actual situation very close to the author . Indeed , in its most vital parts Evan Harrington ( 1861 ) is a ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
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