Selected Criticism, 1916-1957Oxford University Press, 1960 - 306 pages |
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... reality of which dead and dormant metaphors are the record , and try to focus our minds on the present , hazardous , incom- plete , and thrilling exploration of reality which is represented by metaphors which still retain their vitality ...
... reality of which dead and dormant metaphors are the record , and try to focus our minds on the present , hazardous , incom- plete , and thrilling exploration of reality which is represented by metaphors which still retain their vitality ...
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... reality of the specialist of any sort , but it is the reality with which we ordinary humans are all our lives concerned , the world in which we suffer and delight , are defeated and conquer . To know that reality as it is may not be ...
... reality of the specialist of any sort , but it is the reality with which we ordinary humans are all our lives concerned , the world in which we suffer and delight , are defeated and conquer . To know that reality as it is may not be ...
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... reality of the village - community itself ; and the rejection of the pos- sibility was a spiritual and an economic ... reality in an irreligious and capitalistic society . It might have been in a different society ; but the compulsive ...
... reality of the village - community itself ; and the rejection of the pos- sibility was a spiritual and an economic ... reality in an irreligious and capitalistic society . It might have been in a different society ; but the compulsive ...
Contents
THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM | 1 |
POETRY AND PROSE ΙΟ | 10 |
STENDHAL | 25 |
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