Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our Time |
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Page xi
... Tradition : I have said nothing about Wuthering Heights because that astonishing work seems to me a kind of sport ... Emily Brontë broke completely , and in the most challenging way , both with the Scott tradition that imposed on the ...
... Tradition : I have said nothing about Wuthering Heights because that astonishing work seems to me a kind of sport ... Emily Brontë broke completely , and in the most challenging way , both with the Scott tradition that imposed on the ...
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... traditions of the novel as they exist outside England ; he may draw on Dostoevsky or Proust or Joyce , to say nothing of the nineteenth - century French . Nevertheless , while the native English tradition is extraordinarily capable of ...
... traditions of the novel as they exist outside England ; he may draw on Dostoevsky or Proust or Joyce , to say nothing of the nineteenth - century French . Nevertheless , while the native English tradition is extraordinarily capable of ...
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... tradition of the South , Southern rhetoric , that love of words , even to the extent of being possessed by them , not primarily for their meaning or aptness but for their grandiloquence , their ability to intoxicate . The tradition is ...
... tradition of the South , Southern rhetoric , that love of words , even to the extent of being possessed by them , not primarily for their meaning or aptness but for their grandiloquence , their ability to intoxicate . The tradition is ...
Contents
British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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