Literary Criticism; an Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... literature and the criticism of literature . I put the matter in this way because it is impossible not to be aware of the opinion- it never prevails but neither does it ever wholly die - that criticism is of its nature essentially alien ...
... literature and the criticism of literature . I put the matter in this way because it is impossible not to be aware of the opinion- it never prevails but neither does it ever wholly die - that criticism is of its nature essentially alien ...
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... literature , is to be sought not so much in a better definition of literature as in a sharper distinction of the two functions which it fulfils . In that great social organ which , collectively , we call literature , there may be ...
... literature , is to be sought not so much in a better definition of literature as in a sharper distinction of the two functions which it fulfils . In that great social organ which , collectively , we call literature , there may be ...
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... literature , just as a fully developed mythology provides a framework or context for each of its myths . Further , because mythology and literature occupy the same verbal space , so to speak , the framework or context of every work of ...
... literature , just as a fully developed mythology provides a framework or context for each of its myths . Further , because mythology and literature occupy the same verbal space , so to speak , the framework or context of every work of ...
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