Criticism: The Foundations of Modern Literary JudgmentMark Schorer, Josephine Miles, Gordon McKenzie Harcourt, Brace, 1948 - 553 pages |
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... better than in real life , or as worse , or as they are . It is the same in painting . Polygnotus depicted men as nobler than they are , Pauson as less noble , Dionysius drew them true to life . 2. Now it is evident that each of the ...
... better than in real life , or as worse , or as they are . It is the same in painting . Polygnotus depicted men as nobler than they are , Pauson as less noble , Dionysius drew them true to life . 2. Now it is evident that each of the ...
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... better than Henry James , and Frank Norris better than Mark Twain , and , in our own day , Dos Passos is stuck on a thin eminence that must alarm him . Controversy is not here a profitable exercise , but it may be said for the sake of ...
... better than Henry James , and Frank Norris better than Mark Twain , and , in our own day , Dos Passos is stuck on a thin eminence that must alarm him . Controversy is not here a profitable exercise , but it may be said for the sake of ...
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... better or worse whatever he thinks , feels or does during the hour . What shall we say it would be best for him , if he could , to do ? We need not bother to imagine the detail of the external situation or the character of the man . We ...
... better or worse whatever he thinks , feels or does during the hour . What shall we say it would be best for him , if he could , to do ? We need not bother to imagine the detail of the external situation or the character of the man . We ...
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