In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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Page 11
... kind of experience and another . The conception of style as ornament ignores the crucial function of language as a precise means of expressing thought . We may all agree that Franklin D. Roosevelt or the Emperor Montezuma once existed ...
... kind of experience and another . The conception of style as ornament ignores the crucial function of language as a precise means of expressing thought . We may all agree that Franklin D. Roosevelt or the Emperor Montezuma once existed ...
Page 63
... kind of symbolic anecdote , or parable ; what brings Franklin's practice closer to Puritan preaching than to the parables in the Bible is his careful addition of a conclusion that drives home the point - the application or use - for ...
... kind of symbolic anecdote , or parable ; what brings Franklin's practice closer to Puritan preaching than to the parables in the Bible is his careful addition of a conclusion that drives home the point - the application or use - for ...
Page 99
... kind of factual concern that was so valuable in " Young Goodman Brown . " Charles Ryskamp has ably analyzed Hawthorne's care- ful blending of seventeenth - century facts into the fiction of The Scarlet Letter , and another scholar has ...
... kind of factual concern that was so valuable in " Young Goodman Brown . " Charles Ryskamp has ably analyzed Hawthorne's care- ful blending of seventeenth - century facts into the fiction of The Scarlet Letter , and another scholar has ...
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