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... Literature ( 1871 ) , translation of HISTOIRE DE LA LITTÉRATURE AN- GLAISE ( 1863-64 ) , critical experiment by the French thinker Hippolyte Taine that applies methods borrowed from natural science to the study of literature . Its ...
... Literature ( 1871 ) , translation of HISTOIRE DE LA LITTÉRATURE AN- GLAISE ( 1863-64 ) , critical experiment by the French thinker Hippolyte Taine that applies methods borrowed from natural science to the study of literature . Its ...
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... literature and are far in ad- vance of any medieval literature in their real- ism , their controlled , objective style , their powers of character delineation , and their overwhelming tragic dignity . The family sagas represent the ...
... literature and are far in ad- vance of any medieval literature in their real- ism , their controlled , objective style , their powers of character delineation , and their overwhelming tragic dignity . The family sagas represent the ...
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... literature development 10 : 1223e Dublin's leading role 5 : 1073a Irish literature , unusual in having two bod- ies of literature , one in the native language , Gaelic , and the other in English , sometimes called Anglo - Irish literature ...
... literature development 10 : 1223e Dublin's leading role 5 : 1073a Irish literature , unusual in having two bod- ies of literature , one in the native language , Gaelic , and the other in English , sometimes called Anglo - Irish literature ...
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