The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora RoyWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1978 M07 4 - 163 páginas The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora Roy contains essays offered as a tribute on the occasion of Dr. Flora Roy’s retirement as a Canadian university teacher of English. These essays reflect the literary interests and administrative activities of Dr. Roy and demonstrate the relationship between literature and the perennial human urge to achieve understanding and control of both the subjective and objective worlds. |
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Spenser and the Complaint 15791590 | 29 |
the Principles 1710 and the Dialogues 1713 | 49 |
Wagner in The Waste Land | 71 |
The Relationship Between D H Lawrence and Maurice Maeterlinck | 87 |
An Essay in Literary Realism and Experimentalism | 103 |
Statements on Literature and Film | 119 |
Margaret Drabble and the Search for Analogy | 133 |
The Urban Canadian Fiction of Richard B Wright | 151 |
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Página 17 - But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament ; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
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Página 51 - Thing or Being is the most general name of all; it comprehends under it two kinds entirely distinct and heterogeneous, and which have nothing common but the name, to wit, spirits and ideas. The former are active, indivisible substances: the latter are inert, fleeting, dependent beings, which subsist not by themselves, but are supported by, or exist in minds or spiritual substances.
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