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... Literary Composition and Relation to Life Literature is certainly the least pure of all arts and the least capable of such purity or abstraction . In the first place , the elements of a literary composition are not simple and direct ...
... Literary Composition and Relation to Life Literature is certainly the least pure of all arts and the least capable of such purity or abstraction . In the first place , the elements of a literary composition are not simple and direct ...
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... literary history in mind — that is , the historical development of aesthetic values and world - views . Familiarity with the general outline and characteristics of literary history , especially that of English literature which is an ...
... literary history in mind — that is , the historical development of aesthetic values and world - views . Familiarity with the general outline and characteristics of literary history , especially that of English literature which is an ...
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... literary tradition , one which has captured the imagination of an international readership because of its relevance ... literary techniques from both European writing and African oral tradition have added a new aesthetic interest . With ...
... literary tradition , one which has captured the imagination of an international readership because of its relevance ... literary techniques from both European writing and African oral tradition have added a new aesthetic interest . With ...
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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