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... individual questioning and reassessment of all knowledge in European education , and for the preoccupation both with character development in literature as well as with works that put individual characters in conflict with society . If ...
... individual questioning and reassessment of all knowledge in European education , and for the preoccupation both with character development in literature as well as with works that put individual characters in conflict with society . If ...
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... individual identity in a dehumanising modern world . To one degree or another each ethnic or national group in Africa is still in touch with an older cultural tradition whose manifes- tations are different from the social , personal and ...
... individual identity in a dehumanising modern world . To one degree or another each ethnic or national group in Africa is still in touch with an older cultural tradition whose manifes- tations are different from the social , personal and ...
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... individual style of a particular author or speaker who has developed a unique and individual way of using language within the common style of his age or period . It is not unusual , for example , to see a suit or hat in a shop and think ...
... individual style of a particular author or speaker who has developed a unique and individual way of using language within the common style of his age or period . It is not unusual , for example , to see a suit or hat in a shop and think ...
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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Understanding the Elements of Literature: Its Forms, Techniques and Cultural ... Richard Taylor No preview available - 1981 |
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