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Life - giving tensions are created through the conscious antagonism of dissimilar characteristics , motives or even modes of expression . Chinua Achebe , for example , gives us an almost anthropological and idyllic account of ...
Life - giving tensions are created through the conscious antagonism of dissimilar characteristics , motives or even modes of expression . Chinua Achebe , for example , gives us an almost anthropological and idyllic account of ...
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A character in a novel or play is not a real human being and has no life outside the literary composition , however well the illusion of reality has been created by the author . A character is a mere construction of words meant to ...
A character in a novel or play is not a real human being and has no life outside the literary composition , however well the illusion of reality has been created by the author . A character is a mere construction of words meant to ...
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The Illusion of Reality The immediate and physical re - creation of action before an audience introduces certain limitations ... the relationship of an action to its limitation on a stage and the illusion of reality which is created .
The Illusion of Reality The immediate and physical re - creation of action before an audience introduces certain limitations ... the relationship of an action to its limitation on a stage and the illusion of reality which is created .
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Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Aesthetic Elements of Narrative Fiction | 48 |
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