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... story , the story loses its sense of conviction and inevitabil- ity . The objections to such a use of coincidence * are even more forcible , for coincidence is chance compounded . Coincidence may be justifiably used to initiate a story ...
... story , the story loses its sense of conviction and inevitabil- ity . The objections to such a use of coincidence * are even more forcible , for coincidence is chance compounded . Coincidence may be justifiably used to initiate a story ...
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... story may be little or nothing except as it is embodied and vitalized by the story . Unembodied , it is a dry backbone , without flesh or life . Sometimes the theme of a story is explicitly stated somewhere in the story , either by the ...
... story may be little or nothing except as it is embodied and vitalized by the story . Unembodied , it is a dry backbone , without flesh or life . Sometimes the theme of a story is explicitly stated somewhere in the story , either by the ...
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... story all sorts of fanciful meanings not legitimately supported by it . Beginning readers need to remember that most stories operate almost wholly at the literal level and that , even in highly symbolical stories , the majority of the ...
... story all sorts of fanciful meanings not legitimately supported by it . Beginning readers need to remember that most stories operate almost wholly at the literal level and that , even in highly symbolical stories , the majority of the ...
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Escape and Interpretation | 3 |
Thomas Wolfe The Child by Tiger | 24 |
Plot | 41 |
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