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Page 93
... given works of lit- erary art demanded , ideally at least , by old and new critic alike , remains debatable . As Cook saw it , his job was to find out what these works meant , by the use of appropriate historical and philological tools ...
... given works of lit- erary art demanded , ideally at least , by old and new critic alike , remains debatable . As Cook saw it , his job was to find out what these works meant , by the use of appropriate historical and philological tools ...
Page 102
... given work is 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 ...
... given work is 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 ...
Page 155
... given to Wuthering Heights by a critic determined to say something new about the novel at all costs ( I have just read about a dozen fairly recent arti- cles on Wuthering Heights , of which not more than three provide any illumination ...
... given to Wuthering Heights by a critic determined to say something new about the novel at all costs ( I have just read about a dozen fairly recent arti- cles on Wuthering Heights , of which not more than three provide any illumination ...
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