Twentieth-century American Literature, 6. köideChelsea House Publishers, 1985 |
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Page 3276
... society's ' rubbish ' ( starting with the established society itself ) , and Flange is indeed burrowing . He is also drawn to the sea : ' he had read or heard somewhere in his pre - adolescence that the sea was a woman and the metaphor ...
... society's ' rubbish ' ( starting with the established society itself ) , and Flange is indeed burrowing . He is also drawn to the sea : ' he had read or heard somewhere in his pre - adolescence that the sea was a woman and the metaphor ...
Page 3501
... society to govern man's behavior , according to Rousseau , did not come from nature but from institutions and conven- tions . It was to escape these conventions that man moved Westward with his mind and body , westward into the romance ...
... society to govern man's behavior , according to Rousseau , did not come from nature but from institutions and conven- tions . It was to escape these conventions that man moved Westward with his mind and body , westward into the romance ...
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... society discovering a new life along with a new language , a society moving with great circumspection in spite of its clannishness and intellectual assurance , a society that could not help sentimentalizing somewhat over what it took to ...
... society discovering a new life along with a new language , a society moving with great circumspection in spite of its clannishness and intellectual assurance , a society that could not help sentimentalizing somewhat over what it took to ...
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