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Page 11
... genealogy , however , demands interpretation , and Dickens's naive narrator misinterprets his already questionable “ documentary evidence " : he relies on Toby's death- bed whisper because it was copied and witnessed with six signatures ...
... genealogy , however , demands interpretation , and Dickens's naive narrator misinterprets his already questionable “ documentary evidence " : he relies on Toby's death- bed whisper because it was copied and witnessed with six signatures ...
Page 78
... genealogy and analyzes the world solely in terms of " blood and family " ( 2 : 210 ) . The Transome matriarch and the women of the Dodson clan - who store and hoard their belongings so as to will them to their survivors - believe all ...
... genealogy and analyzes the world solely in terms of " blood and family " ( 2 : 210 ) . The Transome matriarch and the women of the Dodson clan - who store and hoard their belongings so as to will them to their survivors - believe all ...
Page 110
... genealogy of storytellers , appearing a meta- phorical son to Adam as " father . " This narrator acquires the authority of storytellers because he heard this story from a father , just as Mr. Macey heard his story from his father . In ...
... genealogy of storytellers , appearing a meta- phorical son to Adam as " father . " This narrator acquires the authority of storytellers because he heard this story from a father , just as Mr. Macey heard his story from his father . In ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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