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Page 114
... described in this novel . And beyond this question lies another . Isn't the whole conception of life as described in None Shall Look Back a literary abstraction ? In retrospect , the characters in this novel seem static , fixed in ...
... described in this novel . And beyond this question lies another . Isn't the whole conception of life as described in None Shall Look Back a literary abstraction ? In retrospect , the characters in this novel seem static , fixed in ...
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... described , then , is one in which everybody is at cross - purposes with everyone else . Inevitably , the tragic and the comic are inextricably mixed . As renderings and interpretations of primitive psychology , these novels are among ...
... described , then , is one in which everybody is at cross - purposes with everyone else . Inevitably , the tragic and the comic are inextricably mixed . As renderings and interpretations of primitive psychology , these novels are among ...
Page 300
... described is really the interior world of his characters . It is projected with great brilliance : in his ability to suggest tropical heat and squalor , the seediness of the exotic , Bowles is not surpassed by Graham Greene . Bowles's ...
... described is really the interior world of his characters . It is projected with great brilliance : in his ability to suggest tropical heat and squalor , the seediness of the exotic , Bowles is not surpassed by Graham Greene . Bowles's ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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