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... story itself is in Ovid , who says he got it from the East- perhaps from Babylon , perhaps from India . It became the subject of a French poem . The story figures in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women , and in Gower's Confessio Amantis . In ...
... story itself is in Ovid , who says he got it from the East- perhaps from Babylon , perhaps from India . It became the subject of a French poem . The story figures in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women , and in Gower's Confessio Amantis . In ...
Page 167
... story and a bad story is that the former continually whets our curiosity and continually satisfies it , while the latter merely puzzles us or makes us wholly indifferent to its progress . The hall - mark of a good story is that it ...
... story and a bad story is that the former continually whets our curiosity and continually satisfies it , while the latter merely puzzles us or makes us wholly indifferent to its progress . The hall - mark of a good story is that it ...
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... story as in Henry Esmond , Dic- kens ' Great Expectations or Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage - the problem may ... story : the entire drama is seen and presented through his consciousness : he is the whole phenomenon of the " seeing ...
... story as in Henry Esmond , Dic- kens ' Great Expectations or Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage - the problem may ... story : the entire drama is seen and presented through his consciousness : he is the whole phenomenon of the " seeing ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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