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The world of restoration comedy
(1929)
At the outset, let us examine in a general way, the point of view of the people of the Restoration Comedy World. Let us try to discover what their chief interests were. First, what did they think of the world in which they lived? Then, what was their attitude toward politics, business, affairs of state? What were the superstitions ...
Mark Twain's pessimism
(1929)
The shift of interest from what a man is, to an interest in what made him that way, is a significant indication of the present generation's mechanistic turn of mind. Though mildly interested in the appearances of things, we are intensely concerned with an analysis of what produced those appearances. We delude ourselves with ...
A comparative study of José Zorrilla's "Margarita La Tornera" and some of its predecessors in romanic literature.
(1929)
It is a fundamental purpose of literature to express the eternal aspirations of the human heart. Only themes that do embody these natural impulses are undying. This explains the vitality of certain legends. The universal desire to know what is beyond life has inspired the often recurring device of sending a mortal down to ...