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Page 118
... characters in novels as diverse as James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Finnegans Wake ( 1939 ) and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy ( 1760-67 ) . It is the task of literary critics to create a value hierarchy of fictional character ...
... characters in novels as diverse as James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Finnegans Wake ( 1939 ) and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy ( 1760-67 ) . It is the task of literary critics to create a value hierarchy of fictional character ...
Page 147
... character derived from the central characters , who reappeared in the same masks in play after play . As these characters became well known everywhere , dramatists could rely on their audience to re- spond to them in predictable fashion ...
... character derived from the central characters , who reappeared in the same masks in play after play . As these characters became well known everywhere , dramatists could rely on their audience to re- spond to them in predictable fashion ...
Page 545
... character depicted by the mask . Usually , however , the wearer skillfully becomes a " partner " of the character he is impersonating , giving to the mask not only an important spark of vitality by the light flashing from his own eyes ...
... character depicted by the mask . Usually , however , the wearer skillfully becomes a " partner " of the character he is impersonating , giving to the mask not only an important spark of vitality by the light flashing from his own eyes ...
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