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The second voyage is to a land of giants where Gulliver is tiny , but here he is repelled by the unpleasant physical characteristics of the people , their rough , oily skin , stinking breath and lascivious sexuality .
The second voyage is to a land of giants where Gulliver is tiny , but here he is repelled by the unpleasant physical characteristics of the people , their rough , oily skin , stinking breath and lascivious sexuality .
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Patterns of parallels and contrasts become even more effective in drama than in narrative fiction and repeated verbal images as well as the physical setting can also assume the stature of actual characters ; that is , they may assume ...
Patterns of parallels and contrasts become even more effective in drama than in narrative fiction and repeated verbal images as well as the physical setting can also assume the stature of actual characters ; that is , they may assume ...
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Only those physical actions necessary to the plot are written in the stage directions , however , and in studying a play rather than seeing it performed , the reader must be his own producer / director and elaborate the characterisation ...
Only those physical actions necessary to the plot are written in the stage directions , however , and in studying a play rather than seeing it performed , the reader must be his own producer / director and elaborate the characterisation ...
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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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