Literary Criticism: An Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself ; he has ...
... human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know . The reader finds no transaction in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself ; he has ...
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... human reason , during the richest blossoming of human imagination , at a time of the fairest artlessness and the greatest credulity ; if we consider , also , that Mohammedanism appeared with the dawning of poetic prose , and the ...
... human reason , during the richest blossoming of human imagination , at a time of the fairest artlessness and the greatest credulity ; if we consider , also , that Mohammedanism appeared with the dawning of poetic prose , and the ...
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... human conditions . It is in this human content that our interest lies . Let us look once more at our material . In the Estonian epic , just as in the tale from the Gesta Romanorum , the subject is a girl choosing between three suitors ...
... human conditions . It is in this human content that our interest lies . Let us look once more at our material . In the Estonian epic , just as in the tale from the Gesta Romanorum , the subject is a girl choosing between three suitors ...
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