British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8Scribner, 1992 - 400 pages This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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Page 109
... ideas and in- stitutions , and at points an intellectual cruelty that P. N. Furbank saw as moral anarchism . To support ... idea within a wall of words " ( p . 222 ) . Logic , dogma , and all other forms of intellectual absolutism vainly ...
... ideas and in- stitutions , and at points an intellectual cruelty that P. N. Furbank saw as moral anarchism . To support ... idea within a wall of words " ( p . 222 ) . Logic , dogma , and all other forms of intellectual absolutism vainly ...
Page 190
... ideas are wholly the produce of his economic setting is of course as fatuous as the belief that they are wholly ... idea , a means of negotiating , among other things , matters of class and visions of alternative social orders ; and ...
... ideas are wholly the produce of his economic setting is of course as fatuous as the belief that they are wholly ... idea , a means of negotiating , among other things , matters of class and visions of alternative social orders ; and ...
Page 416
... idea and the image— were placed in a strict hierarchy , the prejudice favoring the idea over the image . Some theorists refused to concede how much of the " idea " was actually embedded in , and drawn from the image . To refer to one ...
... idea and the image— were placed in a strict hierarchy , the prejudice favoring the idea over the image . Some theorists refused to concede how much of the " idea " was actually embedded in , and drawn from the image . To refer to one ...
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JOHN ARDEN David Graver 22 | 22 |
MAX BEERBOHM Robert Viscusi | 43 |
BRENDAN BEHAN David Galef | 61 |
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