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... mind are much more a notation of the way his mind works than an attempt literally to transcribe his thoughts . Joyce places an order on the flux of Bloom's day by his parallels with Homer . He varies the surface of the day and its ...
... mind are much more a notation of the way his mind works than an attempt literally to transcribe his thoughts . Joyce places an order on the flux of Bloom's day by his parallels with Homer . He varies the surface of the day and its ...
Page 90
... mind should turn to the thought of the nation that has sprung from its " Platonic conception " of itself . ' And this becomes quite explicit in the last paragraphs of the novel . What had seemed to be a novel of American manners at a ...
... mind should turn to the thought of the nation that has sprung from its " Platonic conception " of itself . ' And this becomes quite explicit in the last paragraphs of the novel . What had seemed to be a novel of American manners at a ...
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... minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether his mind is like theirs I ...
... minds are alike or not . ' In fact , at that point Liddell is writing upon I. Compton - Burnett , whose mind he finds in many ways like Jane Austen's . Together , they are Liddell's ideal novelists . Whether his mind is like theirs I ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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