The Novels of George Eliot: A Study in Form |
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... Henry James's prejudice against the apparently diffuse and rambling structure of novels with multiple plots , and where he speaks of the ' loose , unstructural form ' of War and Peace , Henry James speaks , in his Preface to The Tragic ...
... Henry James's prejudice against the apparently diffuse and rambling structure of novels with multiple plots , and where he speaks of the ' loose , unstructural form ' of War and Peace , Henry James speaks , in his Preface to The Tragic ...
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... Henry James or Proust or Joyce , but it is very much less conspicuous because of the engrossing realistic interest of her human and social delineation . In order to recognize this we must put aside the simple notions of the lucid or ...
... Henry James or Proust or Joyce , but it is very much less conspicuous because of the engrossing realistic interest of her human and social delineation . In order to recognize this we must put aside the simple notions of the lucid or ...
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... Henry James . It could usually be said of her novels that the first half - four were first published as serials1 - insists on figuring as the stage for the second . In her case there is a special need for a strong and binding tension ...
... Henry James . It could usually be said of her novels that the first half - four were first published as serials1 - insists on figuring as the stage for the second . In her case there is a special need for a strong and binding tension ...
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