An Approach to Literature: A Collection of Prose and Verse with Analyses and DiscussionsCleanth Brooks, John Thibaut Purser, Robert Penn Warren F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 - 634 pages |
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Page 120
... become boring . Ring Lardner could have written a modern Alice in Wonderland but did an Al Jolson instead . Even in the realm of pure nonsense , his work was frustrate . Ring Lardner spoofs baseball , yacht races , the game of bridge ...
... become boring . Ring Lardner could have written a modern Alice in Wonderland but did an Al Jolson instead . Even in the realm of pure nonsense , his work was frustrate . Ring Lardner spoofs baseball , yacht races , the game of bridge ...
Page 216
... become conventionalized . A writer , for instance , will make some object , let us say a rose , into a symbol for an idea . Hawthorne frequently employs symbols in The Scarlet Letter and elsewhere . In the very first chapter of the ...
... become conventionalized . A writer , for instance , will make some object , let us say a rose , into a symbol for an idea . Hawthorne frequently employs symbols in The Scarlet Letter and elsewhere . In the very first chapter of the ...
Page 411
... become , him- self , a man of capital and enterprise in turn . The small village rises to a spacious town or city ; substantial edifices of brick , extensive fields , orchards , gardens , colleges , and churches are seen . Broadcloths ...
... become , him- self , a man of capital and enterprise in turn . The small village rises to a spacious town or city ; substantial edifices of brick , extensive fields , orchards , gardens , colleges , and churches are seen . Broadcloths ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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