Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time |
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... experience , with the depth of the individual human being's response to experience . He believed that both the quality of experience of human beings and their capacity for experience had become impoverished by the very nature of modern ...
... experience , with the depth of the individual human being's response to experience . He believed that both the quality of experience of human beings and their capacity for experience had become impoverished by the very nature of modern ...
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... experience and finds himself in purgatory . All this is fascinating , an account , one is persuaded , of a genuine experience in which the narrator finds himself suddenly liberated , to use his own images , from the hound Habit and the ...
... experience and finds himself in purgatory . All this is fascinating , an account , one is persuaded , of a genuine experience in which the narrator finds himself suddenly liberated , to use his own images , from the hound Habit and the ...
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... 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 now , one sees how part of its origins lay in a ...
... 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 now , one sees how part of its origins lay in a ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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