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Page 139
... Woman : verbally bold but prudish and forbiddingly plain ( those ' prominent ' brown eyes become ' rabbit's ' eyes later in the story ) . Though he first describes her as a ' young lady ' , her assertive language politics confound ...
... Woman : verbally bold but prudish and forbiddingly plain ( those ' prominent ' brown eyes become ' rabbit's ' eyes later in the story ) . Though he first describes her as a ' young lady ' , her assertive language politics confound ...
Page 169
... woman without a fortune married to a man without courage , he drags her back across the fields by the scruff of her neck to confront her brother . Danagher hands over the cash and Mary Kate helps Thornton to burn it : not money but her ...
... woman without a fortune married to a man without courage , he drags her back across the fields by the scruff of her neck to confront her brother . Danagher hands over the cash and Mary Kate helps Thornton to burn it : not money but her ...
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... woman ' Dietrich , only to kill her off so that Destry can even- tually marry a nice , boring young virgin who has been hanging about since the beginning of the plot . Frenchy , who stops a bullet meant for Destry , sac- rifices her ...
... woman ' Dietrich , only to kill her off so that Destry can even- tually marry a nice , boring young virgin who has been hanging about since the beginning of the plot . Frenchy , who stops a bullet meant for Destry , sac- rifices her ...
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and the Politics of Empathy | 13 |
Anticolonial Metaphors | 99 |
Language and Race in Joyce and his Successors | 132 |
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