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Page 134
... common business of human existence is going on , the common joys , anxieties and endurances . In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , Carson McCullers creates a fictitious world that can stand for the real world in its depth and variety . In ...
... common business of human existence is going on , the common joys , anxieties and endurances . In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , Carson McCullers creates a fictitious world that can stand for the real world in its depth and variety . In ...
Page 140
... common climate of opinion , the outcome of common experience whether suffered in the English Midlands , in Chicago or in California . Only in this very wide sense , indeed , can one speak of a thirties movement ; and looking back on it ...
... common climate of opinion , the outcome of common experience whether suffered in the English Midlands , in Chicago or in California . Only in this very wide sense , indeed , can one speak of a thirties movement ; and looking back on it ...
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... common theme in classic American fiction , so common , indeed , as to argue the existence of a strong homosexual strain , however re- pressed , in American experience . But the point is , it was repressed , and one has the feeling that ...
... common theme in classic American fiction , so common , indeed , as to argue the existence of a strong homosexual strain , however re- pressed , in American experience . But the point is , it was repressed , and one has the feeling that ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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