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... seems to say , is not just a story for the reader to enjoy vicariously , with moral refinement added to taste , but a means of experimenting with his whole sense of identity ; not an escape from reality but something that re- produces ...
... seems to say , is not just a story for the reader to enjoy vicariously , with moral refinement added to taste , but a means of experimenting with his whole sense of identity ; not an escape from reality but something that re- produces ...
Page 57
... seems to me more authentically Irish in Sterne's voice is the belligerent cheerfulness and the guile that makes a comic performance out of inadequacy . We know that Joyce responded to the liberty Sterne had revealed in fiction . * But ...
... seems to me more authentically Irish in Sterne's voice is the belligerent cheerfulness and the guile that makes a comic performance out of inadequacy . We know that Joyce responded to the liberty Sterne had revealed in fiction . * But ...
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... seems to have suffered from melancholy that he was no more in his element in London than he was in the country . Fame had filled him up , more than he could ever have hoped for , but still he rattled . There were hollows in him ...
... seems to have suffered from melancholy that he was no more in his element in London than he was in the country . Fame had filled him up , more than he could ever have hoped for , but still he rattled . There were hollows in him ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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