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Page 103
... whole , the whole being the exploration of the relations between his characters or of their relations to a central situation or theme . What we may call the pure novelist's criticism of life is an aspect of his design , his composition ...
... whole , the whole being the exploration of the relations between his characters or of their relations to a central situation or theme . What we may call the pure novelist's criticism of life is an aspect of his design , his composition ...
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... whole . But among other things , Bleak House is also about Lady Dedlock , who hides a love - starved heart under a mask of aristocratic boredom ; and as Robert Liddell has said in A Treatise on the Novel : ' If it rains in Lincolnshire ...
... whole . But among other things , Bleak House is also about Lady Dedlock , who hides a love - starved heart under a mask of aristocratic boredom ; and as Robert Liddell has said in A Treatise on the Novel : ' If it rains in Lincolnshire ...
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... whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that the ethical could be rendered successfully in fiction only when the representation was ...
... whole carrying within itself a maximum significance . Ethics are one thing and aesthetics doubtless another , but it was James's principle that the ethical could be rendered successfully in fiction only when the representation was ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
Copyright | |
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