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... symbolism can only be described by examples . The overriding single subject of these later novels is money , which is itself a symbol , and the things that go with money , power , position , and so on . ( In passing , one may point out ...
... symbolism can only be described by examples . The overriding single subject of these later novels is money , which is itself a symbol , and the things that go with money , power , position , and so on . ( In passing , one may point out ...
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... symbol of a different way of life . In Forster's short stories the symbol is often Greece , in the early novels Italy . These symbols are not sentimentalized , for Greece contains Pan , and Forster's symbol always includes the life of ...
... symbol of a different way of life . In Forster's short stories the symbol is often Greece , in the early novels Italy . These symbols are not sentimentalized , for Greece contains Pan , and Forster's symbol always includes the life of ...
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... Symbolism of this kind cannot be paraphrased ; it can only be experienced . It is probably the rarest kind of artistic creation , and it is everywhere in Lawrence . Lawrence's use of the symbol explains also his failures , as for in ...
... Symbolism of this kind cannot be paraphrased ; it can only be experienced . It is probably the rarest kind of artistic creation , and it is everywhere in Lawrence . Lawrence's use of the symbol explains also his failures , as for in ...
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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