Man's Changing Mask: Modes and Methods of Characterization in FictionU of Minnesota Press - 368 pages |
Contents
| 3 | |
A CRUX AND A CLASSIC | 39 |
CHARACTERIZATION IN SYMBOLIC JOURNEYS | 91 |
THE GREAT TRANSITION | 157 |
MODERN CONSEQUENCES | 237 |
Index | 357 |
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Man's Changing Mask: Modes and Methods of Characterization in Fiction Charles Child Walcutt No preview available - 1966 |
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Page 338 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Page 68 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
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