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... short tale ) revolving round -like an electronic envelope - the nucleus of the moment in time that is forever set apart in time . As a curtain - raiser , the one - act play has a special value : it appeals particularly to ama- teurs and ...
... short tale ) revolving round -like an electronic envelope - the nucleus of the moment in time that is forever set apart in time . As a curtain - raiser , the one - act play has a special value : it appeals particularly to ama- teurs and ...
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... short story : it is not a narrative poem like The Ring and the Book . “ A good story well told " is W. L. Phelps ' definition of ' a high - class novel ' . But this gives us no clue regarding the length : when exactly does a long short ...
... short story : it is not a narrative poem like The Ring and the Book . “ A good story well told " is W. L. Phelps ' definition of ' a high - class novel ' . But this gives us no clue regarding the length : when exactly does a long short ...
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... short story is in prose fiction . If a central idea - a single emotion - or an isolable unit of ex- perience is to be the theme of a lyric , it naturally follows that it should be ' short ' . But how short ? Poe laid down this law about ...
... short story is in prose fiction . If a central idea - a single emotion - or an isolable unit of ex- perience is to be the theme of a lyric , it naturally follows that it should be ' short ' . But how short ? Poe laid down this law about ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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