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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... interest , then he would be going to a great deal of trouble for nothing . A person anxious to arrive at the facts , a person wishing to get a resumé of the news , would not turn to a story or poem based on the incident ; he would quite ...
... interest , then he would be going to a great deal of trouble for nothing . A person anxious to arrive at the facts , a person wishing to get a resumé of the news , would not turn to a story or poem based on the incident ; he would quite ...
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... interest one takes in such a piece of writing . Let us take the case of a detective story , a type of fiction in which the element of plot suspense is very strong . The story is about people , after all . There are the criminal , the ...
... interest one takes in such a piece of writing . Let us take the case of a detective story , a type of fiction in which the element of plot suspense is very strong . The story is about people , after all . There are the criminal , the ...
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... interest in Calhoun's personality and career is , therefore , subordinated to his larger historical interest in Calhoun as the repre- sentative of an idea . We can see this subordination quite plainly in the selection of the details of ...
... interest in Calhoun's personality and career is , therefore , subordinated to his larger historical interest in Calhoun as the repre- sentative of an idea . We can see this subordination quite plainly in the selection of the details of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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