Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... visions in the novel . And it is the vision - certainly not the plot , which is one of Dickens ' celebrated worst — which remains in the reader's memory . Exactly how does this imaginative vision take shape , and what is it supposed to ...
... visions in the novel . And it is the vision - certainly not the plot , which is one of Dickens ' celebrated worst — which remains in the reader's memory . Exactly how does this imaginative vision take shape , and what is it supposed to ...
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... vision is superimposed on the other , the force of the child's blundering and concrete vision suddenly turns into the force of Dickens ' own piercingly accurate and equally concrete ( though much broader ) vision ; and that what begins ...
... vision is superimposed on the other , the force of the child's blundering and concrete vision suddenly turns into the force of Dickens ' own piercingly accurate and equally concrete ( though much broader ) vision ; and that what begins ...
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... vision unifies these two kinds of violence through the use of his mad- men . The vision of the novel has to do with social suppression , with irrational and sadistic punishments ( illustrated by the hanging of Hugh's young mother for ...
... vision unifies these two kinds of violence through the use of his mad- men . The vision of the novel has to do with social suppression , with irrational and sadistic punishments ( illustrated by the hanging of Hugh's young mother for ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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