Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 105
... reality . This , we know , is exactly how the news of such a death would be received by such people . Yet we cannot read it without laughing . Even when Jane Austen is not out primarily to make us laugh she never wholly leaves the realm ...
... reality . This , we know , is exactly how the news of such a death would be received by such people . Yet we cannot read it without laughing . Even when Jane Austen is not out primarily to make us laugh she never wholly leaves the realm ...
Page 107
... reality . addition to reconciling fact and imagination he must reconcile fact and form . It is a hard task : and , it cannot be said that Jane Austen always succeeded in it . In Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility she sacrifices ...
... reality . addition to reconciling fact and imagination he must reconcile fact and form . It is a hard task : and , it cannot be said that Jane Austen always succeeded in it . In Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility she sacrifices ...
Page 135
... reality but which also has the shapeliness and continuous significance that are the characteristic beauty of a work of art . Turgenev's Russian sense of reality makes his illusion perfect . Incident and character are photographically ...
... reality but which also has the shapeliness and continuous significance that are the characteristic beauty of a work of art . Turgenev's Russian sense of reality makes his illusion perfect . Incident and character are photographically ...
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