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Page 298
... tragic novel is The Mayor of Casterbridge . Henchard is his grandest hero , as Tess is his most moving heroine , and much of Henchard's tragic greatness comes from his impercipience . He contains all nature within him- self , as a truly ...
... tragic novel is The Mayor of Casterbridge . Henchard is his grandest hero , as Tess is his most moving heroine , and much of Henchard's tragic greatness comes from his impercipience . He contains all nature within him- self , as a truly ...
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... tragic horror , but in Jude everything is subordinated to the depiction of the increas- ingly tragic situation of Jude and Sue . They are described from a much closer range than is usual with Hardy . Jude is the characteristic Hardy ...
... tragic horror , but in Jude everything is subordinated to the depiction of the increas- ingly tragic situation of Jude and Sue . They are described from a much closer range than is usual with Hardy . Jude is the characteristic Hardy ...
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... tragic vision hav- ing failed or become momentarily blurred , the grand style falls into rhetoric . It is from about 1910 onwards that Con- rad gives way to rhetoric , the tragic vision having departed . " There seems to have been ...
... tragic vision hav- ing failed or become momentarily blurred , the grand style falls into rhetoric . It is from about 1910 onwards that Con- rad gives way to rhetoric , the tragic vision having departed . " There seems to have been ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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