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... causes of this strange situation , some brief attention to possible causes may be useful . I suspect that one can find a relationship between two attitudes in history and other literature during the last century : the disdain with which ...
... causes of this strange situation , some brief attention to possible causes may be useful . I suspect that one can find a relationship between two attitudes in history and other literature during the last century : the disdain with which ...
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... causes , only that he saw different causes and perhaps less important causes than those we would now stress . And it recog- nizes that , however inadequate the romantic , progressive frame- work in which Prescott set the tale , a major ...
... causes , only that he saw different causes and perhaps less important causes than those we would now stress . And it recog- nizes that , however inadequate the romantic , progressive frame- work in which Prescott set the tale , a major ...
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... causes as it is with the events and causes themselves . The four characters who serve as the principal narrators are Miss Rosa Coldfield , Mr. Compson ( Quentin's father ) , Quentin , and Shreve . We know the main outlines of the Sutpen ...
... causes as it is with the events and causes themselves . The four characters who serve as the principal narrators are Miss Rosa Coldfield , Mr. Compson ( Quentin's father ) , Quentin , and Shreve . We know the main outlines of the Sutpen ...
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