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Page 90
... criticism of what is found attractive are simultaneous . Thus , in what is a key passage to the novel , he says : Jay Gatz - that was really , or legally , his name . He had changed it at the age of seventeen ... I suppose he'd had the ...
... criticism of what is found attractive are simultaneous . Thus , in what is a key passage to the novel , he says : Jay Gatz - that was really , or legally , his name . He had changed it at the age of seventeen ... I suppose he'd had the ...
Page 124
... criticism and of praise . In this respect , the perfect foil to him is Allen Tate , whose one novel , The Fathers , appeared in 1938 . Tate , primarily a poet and critic both of literature and in the realm of ideas where literature ...
... criticism and of praise . In this respect , the perfect foil to him is Allen Tate , whose one novel , The Fathers , appeared in 1938 . Tate , primarily a poet and critic both of literature and in the realm of ideas where literature ...
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... criticism of it . In Isherwood's fiction ' Mortmere ' makes no appearance . Upward , however , developed it , among Marxist lines , in a few short stories and in Journey to the Border ( 1938 ) . The hero of the novel is a middle - class ...
... criticism of it . In Isherwood's fiction ' Mortmere ' makes no appearance . Upward , however , developed it , among Marxist lines , in a few short stories and in Journey to the Border ( 1938 ) . The hero of the novel is a middle - class ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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