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... shape , we remain re- lieved , even rather cheerful . Before we felt immoral , di- vorced from urgent human contact ; but now we are in the thick of it , badgered and denounced , the book we read a monument of our shame . And yet that ...
... shape , we remain re- lieved , even rather cheerful . Before we felt immoral , di- vorced from urgent human contact ; but now we are in the thick of it , badgered and denounced , the book we read a monument of our shame . And yet that ...
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... shape of the play shapes their char- acter structure . The play is not simply an acting out against a setting , as in a full - bodied traditional novel , but a whole piece , with its own currents , density , and texture , its char ...
... shape of the play shapes their char- acter structure . The play is not simply an acting out against a setting , as in a full - bodied traditional novel , but a whole piece , with its own currents , density , and texture , its char ...
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... shape an aesthetic illusion . So complex a problem permits no simple attitude . Stoll's view sometimes seems valid , with some characters ; and yet aesthetic illusion can have exceedingly disparate ends . But more basically , Stoll's ...
... shape an aesthetic illusion . So complex a problem permits no simple attitude . Stoll's view sometimes seems valid , with some characters ; and yet aesthetic illusion can have exceedingly disparate ends . But more basically , Stoll's ...
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