Critical Essays on C.S. Lewis, Page 4George Watson Lewis was a critical theorist at a time when theory was unfashionable, and his theory of narrative, especially, has dropped from view in recent years. This volume, edited by a colleague of C.S. Lewis, traces his critical reputation from his earliest days to his death in 1963. |
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... Hamlet is not the Danish prince , but ' man ' , some of us might reply that we believe that the play was written , not to set forth any abstract or philosophic concept , but to portray a moving struggle affecting certain definite human ...
... Hamlet is not the Danish prince , but ' man ' , some of us might reply that we believe that the play was written , not to set forth any abstract or philosophic concept , but to portray a moving struggle affecting certain definite human ...
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... Hamlet ' as matter for reading and test- ing examinees . It is , in fact , and remains , one of the most successful plays the world knows . But the credit for it does not all belong to Shakespeare , and this detail , familiar to the ...
... Hamlet ' as matter for reading and test- ing examinees . It is , in fact , and remains , one of the most successful plays the world knows . But the credit for it does not all belong to Shakespeare , and this detail , familiar to the ...
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... Hamlet's delays , read Haz- litt On Thought and Action ' : to Those persons who are much accustomed abstract ... Hamlet . There is something of him in most of us and it was the Hamlet spirit added to a mysterious whale that made Moby ...
... Hamlet's delays , read Haz- litt On Thought and Action ' : to Those persons who are much accustomed abstract ... Hamlet . There is something of him in most of us and it was the Hamlet spirit added to a mysterious whale that made Moby ...
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J A W Bennett 1965 The humane medievalist Cambridge University | 52 |
The Allegory of Love 1936 | 79 |
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