Tradition and dream: the English and American novel from the twenties to our timeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960. |
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In form, Sons and Lovers is a traditional autobiographical novel, comparable with
Bennett's Clayhanger. In this respect, it is very much of its time — 1913. Yet,
when one compares it with Clayhanger, there can be no question which now has
...
In form, Sons and Lovers is a traditional autobiographical novel, comparable with
Bennett's Clayhanger. In this respect, it is very much of its time — 1913. Yet,
when one compares it with Clayhanger, there can be no question which now has
...
Page 23
The children were caught up in the clash between them, and in Sons and Lovers,
try to be fair as he may, Lawrence is on his mother's ' side. Later, he was to
change sides, and it is the anticipation of this in his first novel, The White Peacock
, ...
The children were caught up in the clash between them, and in Sons and Lovers,
try to be fair as he may, Lawrence is on his mother's ' side. Later, he was to
change sides, and it is the anticipation of this in his first novel, The White Peacock
, ...
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Viewed simply as a study of the Oedipus complex working like a doom through a
man's life, there is no parallel to A True Story in our fiction except Sons and
Lovers, though the difference between them is profound. Lawrence takes sides in
the ...
Viewed simply as a study of the Oedipus complex working like a doom through a
man's life, there is no parallel to A True Story in our fiction except Sons and
Lovers, though the difference between them is profound. Lawrence takes sides in
the ...
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Contents
British i | 51 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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| Title | Tradition and dream: the English and American novel from the twenties to our time Phoenix House publication |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 346 pages |
| Subjects | American fiction English fiction |
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