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... written and the meanings and suggestions pos- sessed by words in a given time and place before we can read accurately . Thus no one has really disputed either that a work of literary art is a work of literary art or that one must be ...
... written and the meanings and suggestions pos- sessed by words in a given time and place before we can read accurately . Thus no one has really disputed either that a work of literary art is a work of literary art or that one must be ...
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... written on the assumption that the reader had not read or did not need to read the works discussed . Today it is difficult to find a serious discussion of a writer that does not take for granted that the reader has read the texts being ...
... written on the assumption that the reader had not read or did not need to read the works discussed . Today it is difficult to find a serious discussion of a writer that does not take for granted that the reader has read the texts being ...
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... writing his definitive biography of Stevenson , Voyage to Windward ( 1951 ) . This book is worth special mention be- cause it is written not by a professor but by a professional journalist who spent several years following Stevenson's ...
... writing his definitive biography of Stevenson , Voyage to Windward ( 1951 ) . This book is worth special mention be- cause it is written not by a professor but by a professional journalist who spent several years following Stevenson's ...
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