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Page 104
... successful because the fantasy is handled with such tact that it never breaks the surface realism , it is indeed ... successfully , with such a novelist as Sinclair Lewis on his home ground . The excellence of the writing might , perhaps ...
... successful because the fantasy is handled with such tact that it never breaks the surface realism , it is indeed ... successfully , with such a novelist as Sinclair Lewis on his home ground . The excellence of the writing might , perhaps ...
Page 118
... successfully realized character in the novel . What reality he has in The Sound and the Fury ( and one has to put it like this because he is also the centre of consciousness of ... successful - describes a journey : 118 TRADITION AND DREAM.
... successfully realized character in the novel . What reality he has in The Sound and the Fury ( and one has to put it like this because he is also the centre of consciousness of ... successful - describes a journey : 118 TRADITION AND DREAM.
Page 330
... successful , a work of great subtlety and moral beauty . The theme , if one regards Frank Alpine as the centre of the novel , is the struggle for moral excellence , the wish to be good , though this is probably to over- simplify , for ...
... successful , a work of great subtlety and moral beauty . The theme , if one regards Frank Alpine as the centre of the novel , is the struggle for moral excellence , the wish to be good , though this is probably to over- simplify , for ...
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American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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