Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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... Eighteenth - Century Theories of Tragedy , " PMLA , LXII ( Sep- tember , 1947 ) , 672–89 . 8 Earl R. Wasserman , " The Pleasures of Tragedy , " ELH , XIV ( December , 1947 ) , 283-307 . The present treatment of 18th - century tragic ...
... Eighteenth - Century Theories of Tragedy , " PMLA , LXII ( Sep- tember , 1947 ) , 672–89 . 8 Earl R. Wasserman , " The Pleasures of Tragedy , " ELH , XIV ( December , 1947 ) , 283-307 . The present treatment of 18th - century tragic ...
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... 18th - century illustra- tions of this principle is the pedantically talkative and humorous novel Tristram Shandy , in which the hero is not born until the third volume and disappears from the story after the sixth of the total nine ...
... 18th - century illustra- tions of this principle is the pedantically talkative and humorous novel Tristram Shandy , in which the hero is not born until the third volume and disappears from the story after the sixth of the total nine ...
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... 18th - century drama . That theory , as we have seen , was a lover not only of sentiment but of naturalistic detail . The more true to life a story was , the better , the more convincing , the more sympathetic . Such con- nections ...
... 18th - century drama . That theory , as we have seen , was a lover not only of sentiment but of naturalistic detail . The more true to life a story was , the better , the more convincing , the more sympathetic . Such con- nections ...
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The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
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