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Page 83
... seen as almost entirely non- intellectual ; she possesses , in Dreiser's words , ' a largeness of feeling not ... seen as much the same thing . Indeed , animal imagery runs throughout The Financier . Cowperwood and his mistress Aileen ...
... seen as almost entirely non- intellectual ; she possesses , in Dreiser's words , ' a largeness of feeling not ... seen as much the same thing . Indeed , animal imagery runs throughout The Financier . Cowperwood and his mistress Aileen ...
Page 180
... seen by an American girl who has married into it , and it still touches the nerve of horror . The most famous expatriate writer of the thirties , however , is probably Henry Miller , with Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) , Black Spring ( 1936 ) ...
... seen by an American girl who has married into it , and it still touches the nerve of horror . The most famous expatriate writer of the thirties , however , is probably Henry Miller , with Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) , Black Spring ( 1936 ) ...
Page 276
... seen from the outside by a mature observer . How the work will continue it is difficult to say . In A Ripple from the Storm Martha Quest seems no longer the channel through which the action flows . She has become smaller , overshadowed ...
... seen from the outside by a mature observer . How the work will continue it is difficult to say . In A Ripple from the Storm Martha Quest seems no longer the channel through which the action flows . She has become smaller , overshadowed ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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