Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 94
... plot and character are not so integrated that one seems directly the result of the other . Here Fanny Burney shows conspicuously her inferiority to Jane Austen : she imposes her plot on a picture of life ; the action does not arise ...
... plot and character are not so integrated that one seems directly the result of the other . Here Fanny Burney shows conspicuously her inferiority to Jane Austen : she imposes her plot on a picture of life ; the action does not arise ...
Page 107
... plot . In Mansfield Park she sacrifices form to fact . The original design of the book obviously intended Henry Crawford to fill the rôle of villain . But as she works Jane Austen's creative power gets out of control , Henry Crawford ...
... plot . In Mansfield Park she sacrifices form to fact . The original design of the book obviously intended Henry Crawford to fill the rôle of villain . But as she works Jane Austen's creative power gets out of control , Henry Crawford ...
Page 128
... plot in the Western sense , as in The House of Gentlefolk , it is a strictly probable one , arising logically from character and situation . And his most characteristic books , like Fathers and Children and Rudin have no such regular plot ...
... plot in the Western sense , as in The House of Gentlefolk , it is a strictly probable one , arising logically from character and situation . And his most characteristic books , like Fathers and Children and Rudin have no such regular plot ...
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