Criticism: The Foundations of Modern Literary JudgmentMark Schorer, Josephine Miles, Gordon McKenzie Harcourt, Brace, 1948 - 553 pages |
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... spirit ( Geist , a word which , with its adjective , I shall translate " spirit , " " spiritual , " because our words " mind " and " mental " suggest something merely intellectual ) . The reason why the tragic conflict thus ap- peals to ...
... spirit ( Geist , a word which , with its adjective , I shall translate " spirit , " " spiritual , " because our words " mind " and " mental " suggest something merely intellectual ) . The reason why the tragic conflict thus ap- peals to ...
Page 77
... spirit of a Shakespeare rises joyously superior to the out- ward calamities which he recounts and cele- brates the greatness of the human spirit whose travail he describes . Tragedies , in that only sense of the word which has any ...
... spirit of a Shakespeare rises joyously superior to the out- ward calamities which he recounts and cele- brates the greatness of the human spirit whose travail he describes . Tragedies , in that only sense of the word which has any ...
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... spirit instead of the spirit who is intruding upon her : " You terrible miserable woman ! " she cries . The apparition disappears . She tells the housekeeper , who looks at her oddly , that the soul of the former governess is damned and ...
... spirit instead of the spirit who is intruding upon her : " You terrible miserable woman ! " she cries . The apparition disappears . She tells the housekeeper , who looks at her oddly , that the soul of the former governess is damned and ...
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