In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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Page 14
... understand our procedures as well as we can . It is probably true that the next generation , or one or two generations after that , will understand our historiographical procedures much better than we do ( if someone should retain an ...
... understand our procedures as well as we can . It is probably true that the next generation , or one or two generations after that , will understand our historiographical procedures much better than we do ( if someone should retain an ...
Page 124
... understand the history of his own community and to accept it as a part of his own identity . At Harvard , we learn , both the South and his own identity have been subjected to the usual sort of taunting attack , and he has been obliged ...
... understand the history of his own community and to accept it as a part of his own identity . At Harvard , we learn , both the South and his own identity have been subjected to the usual sort of taunting attack , and he has been obliged ...
Page 138
... understand that past . It is this combination of aims and themes that seems to me to justify Faulkner's difficult method . At any given point , we are almost equally interested in the historical story and the narration or the search for ...
... understand that past . It is this combination of aims and themes that seems to me to justify Faulkner's difficult method . At any given point , we are almost equally interested in the historical story and the narration or the search for ...
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