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It ______ to more exalted writing either.
wasn’t alien
It wasn’t alien to ______ either.
more exalted writing
“______” one critic called James’s experiment in viewpoint, and Conrad’s novels were compared to detective stories.
Psychological mystery stories
“Psychological mystery stories” one critic called ______, and Conrad’s novels were compared to detective stories.
James’s experiment in viewpoint
“Psychological mystery stories” one critic called James’s experiment in viewpoint, and ______ were compared to detective stories.
Conrad’s novels
“Psychological mystery stories” one critic called James’s experiment in viewpoint, and Conrad’s novels were ______.
compared to detective stories
______ becomes the written record of a husband’s investigation of his wife, revealing a murder scheme and supplemented by cryptic questions to the reader about what characters might have been up to.
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier becomes the written record of ______, revealing a murder scheme and supplemented by cryptic questions to the reader about what characters might have been up to.
a husband’s investigation of his wife
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier becomes the written record of a husband’s investigation of his wife, ______ and supplemented by cryptic questions to the reader about what characters might have been up to.
revealing a murder scheme
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier becomes the written record of a husband’s investigation of his wife, revealing a murder scheme and ______ about what characters might have been up to.
supplemented by cryptic questions to the reader
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier becomes the written record of a husband’s investigation of his wife, revealing a murder scheme and supplemented by cryptic questions to the reader about ______.
what characters might have been up to
(Ford, a fan of ______, went on to write the 1936 thriller Vive le Roy.)
detective stories
(Ford, a fan of detective stories, went on to write ______.)
the 1936 thriller Vive le Roy
Most famously, ______’s obsessive, circuitous inquiries into his characters’ pasts, along with dark hints about their secrets, had obvious kinship with investigation plots.
William Faulkner
Most famously, William Faulkner’s ______, along with dark hints about their secrets, had obvious kinship with investigation plots.
obsessive, circuitous inquiries into his characters’ pasts
Most famously, William Faulkner’s obsessive, circuitous inquiries into his characters’ pasts, along with ______, had obvious kinship with investigation plots.
dark hints about their secrets
Most famously, William Faulkner’s obsessive, circuitous inquiries into his characters’ pasts, along with dark hints about their secrets, had ______.
obvious kinship with investigation plots
Faulkner’s detective story ______ is the most obvious manifestation of an impulse that Conrad Aiken found in the very fibers of his style: …
Intruder in the Dust (1948)
Faulkner’s detective story Intruder in the Dust (1948) is ______ of an impulse that Conrad Aiken found in the very fibers of his style: …
the most obvious manifestation
Faulkner’s detective story Intruder in the Dust (1948) is the most obvious manifestation of an impulse that Conrad Aiken ______: …
found in the very fibers of his style
… an impulse that Conrad Aiken found in the very fibers of his style: “the ______ of deliberately withheld meaning, of progressive and partial and delayed disclosure, which so often gives the characteristic shape to the novels themselves.”
whole elaborate method
… an impulse that Conrad Aiken found in the very fibers of his style: “the whole elaborate method of ______, of progressive and partial and delayed disclosure, which so often gives the characteristic shape to the novels themselves.”
deliberately withheld meaning
… an impulse that Conrad Aiken found in the very fibers of his style: “the whole elaborate method of deliberately withheld meaning, of ______, which so often gives the characteristic shape to the novels themselves.”
progressive and partial and delayed disclosure
… an impulse that Conrad Aiken found in the very fibers of his style: “the whole elaborate method of deliberately withheld meaning, of progressive and partial and delayed disclosure, which so often gives ______.”
the characteristic shape to the novels themselves
