In Defense of Historical Literature1967 |
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Page 133
... Shreve . We know the main outlines of the Sutpen story within the first few pages , but the crucial facts and motives are missing , and some of these remain unknown at the very end . All four narrators are puzzled by contradictions ...
... Shreve . We know the main outlines of the Sutpen story within the first few pages , but the crucial facts and motives are missing , and some of these remain unknown at the very end . All four narrators are puzzled by contradictions ...
Page 136
... Shreve are reconstructing Thomas Sutpen's experience before he came to Mississippi , they come to an immense ... Shreve to the most important historical “ fact ” in the novel , 5 The italics are mine . the Negro ancestry of Charles Bon ...
... Shreve are reconstructing Thomas Sutpen's experience before he came to Mississippi , they come to an immense ... Shreve to the most important historical “ fact ” in the novel , 5 The italics are mine . the Negro ancestry of Charles Bon ...
Page 137
... Shreve and Quentin reconstruct the scene in which Thomas Sutpen plays the trump card by telling Henry . That moment , it seems to me , is the climax of the novel because it also represents the triumph of Quentin's and Shreve's patient ...
... Shreve and Quentin reconstruct the scene in which Thomas Sutpen plays the trump card by telling Henry . That moment , it seems to me , is the climax of the novel because it also represents the triumph of Quentin's and Shreve's patient ...
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Absalom achievement action admirable American Autobiography believe Benjamin Franklin biographical Blithedale Romance boss Boston century character Charles Bon child childhood Clytie Compson confess Cotton Mather criticism of history D. H. Lawrence declared Devil diary Dimmesdale drama E. H. Carr England errors essay evidence experience fact Faith Faulkner Harvard Hawthorne Hawthorne's hazing Henry heroine Hester historians human immigrant important Increase Mather Infant Prodigy innocent insist interpretation John Cotton judgment Keimer kind language literary literature Marble Faun Martha Corey meaning method Miller minister Miss Rosa modern moral moreover Morison motives Motley narrative narrator nature Negro novel Overseers paragraphs perception portrayal portrays problem psychological Puritan Quentin Quentin Compson questions reader reason recognize reformer relationship represent Salem says Scarlet Letter seems seventeenth seventeenth-century Shreve specter story Sutpen's Hundred symbol tells Thomas Sutpen tion truth typical understand witch witchcraft trials writing Young Goodman Brown