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... actual characterisation which belong under each heading and weigh them on balance . Such and such a character , for example , is rounded out in so many ways within the work and flattened in so many others . Another method is to make ...
... actual characterisation which belong under each heading and weigh them on balance . Such and such a character , for example , is rounded out in so many ways within the work and flattened in so many others . Another method is to make ...
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... actual author than any story - teller in a direct method narration , even when the work pretends to be autobiographical , as in the case of Camara Laye's African Child ( L'enfant noir , 1953 ) or James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist ...
... actual author than any story - teller in a direct method narration , even when the work pretends to be autobiographical , as in the case of Camara Laye's African Child ( L'enfant noir , 1953 ) or James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist ...
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... ( actual ) - I caught this morning morning's minion , King- ( ideal ) ( actual ) dom of daylight's dauphin , dapple - dawn - drawn ( ideal ) ( actual ) Falcon , in his riding ( ideal ) ( actual ) of the rolling , level , underneath him ...
... ( actual ) - I caught this morning morning's minion , King- ( ideal ) ( actual ) dom of daylight's dauphin , dapple - dawn - drawn ( ideal ) ( actual ) Falcon , in his riding ( ideal ) ( actual ) of the rolling , level , underneath him ...
Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Drama and the Theatre | 101 |
Copyright | |
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