Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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... literature or literary history . It aims to use critical writing , more completely than is done in any existing text - book of selections , as an agent in rhetorical study and intellectual discipline . Books of specimens of the so ...
... literature or literary history . It aims to use critical writing , more completely than is done in any existing text - book of selections , as an agent in rhetorical study and intellectual discipline . Books of specimens of the so ...
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... literature deriving its ultimate sanction from personality and the general and lasting acceptation of its dicta it would follow that any collection of good critical essays would form a suitable and desirable subject for rhetorical study ...
... literature deriving its ultimate sanction from personality and the general and lasting acceptation of its dicta it would follow that any collection of good critical essays would form a suitable and desirable subject for rhetorical study ...
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... literature ; it has always fought the new good thing in behalf of the old good thing ; it has invariably fostered the tame , the trite , the negative that survived . " Leslie Stephen , out of sorts with his life - long profession ...
... literature ; it has always fought the new good thing in behalf of the old good thing ; it has invariably fostered the tame , the trite , the negative that survived . " Leslie Stephen , out of sorts with his life - long profession ...
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... literature . " " These words supply a handy definition of literary criticism ; it is talk about the things of literature , haply with a view to stating what seems to the critic to be true . This definition is , of course , very vague ...
... literature . " " These words supply a handy definition of literary criticism ; it is talk about the things of literature , haply with a view to stating what seems to the critic to be true . This definition is , of course , very vague ...
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... literature , and its tests are evidently not so precise as may be applied in a matter of natural or chemical science . For some expounders of literature will have it that the ideas are the main thing , others , that the expression of ...
... literature , and its tests are evidently not so precise as may be applied in a matter of natural or chemical science . For some expounders of literature will have it that the ideas are the main thing , others , that the expression of ...
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