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... live in one small corner for one little stretch of time , and finally to judge , as a critic , the actions of the present by the experience of the past . The humanist's task is to clear away the obstacles to our understanding of the ...
... live in one small corner for one little stretch of time , and finally to judge , as a critic , the actions of the present by the experience of the past . The humanist's task is to clear away the obstacles to our understanding of the ...
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... be that one does not , and does not need to , study academically one's own contem- porary literature , which is part of the cultural world one lives in and which therefore one is supposed to absorb ΙΟ SHIFTS IN EMPHASIS.
... be that one does not , and does not need to , study academically one's own contem- porary literature , which is part of the cultural world one lives in and which therefore one is supposed to absorb ΙΟ SHIFTS IN EMPHASIS.
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David Daiches. lives in and which therefore one is supposed to absorb natu- rally ; only the literature of the past , deriving as it does from a different background and posing special problems of under- standing and interpretation ...
David Daiches. lives in and which therefore one is supposed to absorb natu- rally ; only the literature of the past , deriving as it does from a different background and posing special problems of under- standing and interpretation ...
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