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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... tion according to the form it may take , but the most common are the short story , the novelette , and the novel . In this section we shall be concerned with the short story primarily , but to get some idea of its nature we must treat ...
... tion according to the form it may take , but the most common are the short story , the novelette , and the novel . In this section we shall be concerned with the short story primarily , but to get some idea of its nature we must treat ...
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... tion of the basic theme . ) It is evident that Emerson was not primarily interested in convincing by logical argument but in persuading by an emotional appeal . The quality of the style itself the strongly defined rhythms and the rich ...
... tion of the basic theme . ) It is evident that Emerson was not primarily interested in convincing by logical argument but in persuading by an emotional appeal . The quality of the style itself the strongly defined rhythms and the rich ...
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... tion , and as unintelligent and vulgarizing a worship as that is . Every one with anything like an adequate idea of human perfection has distinctly marked this subordination to higher and spiritual ends of the culti- vation of bodily ...
... tion , and as unintelligent and vulgarizing a worship as that is . Every one with anything like an adequate idea of human perfection has distinctly marked this subordination to higher and spiritual ends of the culti- vation of bodily ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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