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Page 99
... novels , Defoe takes the world as he finds it , and makes only intermittent attempts to impose patterns or values upon it : he is near to being the first truly empiricist writer in English literature . He is not interested in verisimili ...
... novels , Defoe takes the world as he finds it , and makes only intermittent attempts to impose patterns or values upon it : he is near to being the first truly empiricist writer in English literature . He is not interested in verisimili ...
Page 106
... novels are , unseen by their author , centrally about survival . This is why we find such mixed characters as Crusoe and Moll , who are bound to ruin themselves and thus have to overcome ruin . The novels cover a range of ' survival ...
... novels are , unseen by their author , centrally about survival . This is why we find such mixed characters as Crusoe and Moll , who are bound to ruin themselves and thus have to overcome ruin . The novels cover a range of ' survival ...
Page 112
... novels is singularly deracinated , filled with cliches , poor constructions and repetitions : it has at once the immediacy of being casual , and the dullness of a purely utilitarian object of communication.34 These similarities between ...
... novels is singularly deracinated , filled with cliches , poor constructions and repetitions : it has at once the immediacy of being casual , and the dullness of a purely utilitarian object of communication.34 These similarities between ...
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