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Page 13
... character and biographical character . Perhaps some mid - twentieth - century historians are not directly indebted to novelists for their literary techniques , but just as Molière's bourgeois could not avoid speaking prose no historian ...
... character and biographical character . Perhaps some mid - twentieth - century historians are not directly indebted to novelists for their literary techniques , but just as Molière's bourgeois could not avoid speaking prose no historian ...
Page 32
... character ? From what point of view - that is , technically from what posi- tion - does he describe events ? How does he introduce conjecture , and how does he distin- guish between conjecture and what he considers documented fact ? How ...
... character ? From what point of view - that is , technically from what posi- tion - does he describe events ? How does he introduce conjecture , and how does he distin- guish between conjecture and what he considers documented fact ? How ...
Page 59
... character named Father Abra- ham ; and most us overlook the crucial distinction , especially in the first half of Franklin's autobiography , between the writer of the book and the chief character he portrays.1 I do not mean to call ...
... character named Father Abra- ham ; and most us overlook the crucial distinction , especially in the first half of Franklin's autobiography , between the writer of the book and the chief character he portrays.1 I do not mean to call ...
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