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... comic rendering of the German mind in its inordinate romanticism . When the novel appeared it was compared widely to Dostoevsky , and Lewis was admittedly under Dostoevsky's influence when he wrote it . But now the novel reads as though ...
... comic rendering of the German mind in its inordinate romanticism . When the novel appeared it was compared widely to Dostoevsky , and Lewis was admittedly under Dostoevsky's influence when he wrote it . But now the novel reads as though ...
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... comic character . He turns up again , very much in his element , in Waugh's novel of the first months of the war , Put Out More Flags . In these novels , satire in any real sense , or moral indignation , is in abeyance ; but they are ...
... comic character . He turns up again , very much in his element , in Waugh's novel of the first months of the war , Put Out More Flags . In these novels , satire in any real sense , or moral indignation , is in abeyance ; but they are ...
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... comic are inextricably mixed . As renderings and interpretations of primitive psychology , these novels are among the best we have in English , and one mark of Cary's success is the fact that the white characters are revealed as no less ...
... comic are inextricably mixed . As renderings and interpretations of primitive psychology , these novels are among the best we have in English , and one mark of Cary's success is the fact that the white characters are revealed as no less ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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