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Page 97
... style , a quality Cohn deplorably lacks ; indeed , it might be said that the sense of style is the expression of the code . Style is what Brett Ashley superbly has . In part , it is a disdain of meanness and messiness . In part , of ...
... style , a quality Cohn deplorably lacks ; indeed , it might be said that the sense of style is the expression of the code . Style is what Brett Ashley superbly has . In part , it is a disdain of meanness and messiness . In part , of ...
Page 99
... style in which the novels are written . Whether one cares for the style is irrelevant . We are presented with words in spate , whole Niagaras of rhetoric . No one word is used if ten are possible . It is grossly repetitive , grossly ...
... style in which the novels are written . Whether one cares for the style is irrelevant . We are presented with words in spate , whole Niagaras of rhetoric . No one word is used if ten are possible . It is grossly repetitive , grossly ...
Page 293
... style , a bit simple - minded but useful in telling this sort of story ' , a style that is essentially a vulgarization of Hemingway . Nevertheless , from this ruck of war fiction three or four novels stand out sharply and clearly as ...
... style , a bit simple - minded but useful in telling this sort of story ' , a style that is essentially a vulgarization of Hemingway . Nevertheless , from this ruck of war fiction three or four novels stand out sharply and clearly as ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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