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R.J. Spruce

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Fragments and Assemblages by Arthur Bahr
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A must read for anyone studying ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (see from pages 155).

Bahr weaves together thorough researched literary meanings of the compilations and fragments he takes up, and a sense of the elusiveness and subjectivity of the shared inter
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“The radio does not monkey allow the writer to transport the listener’s imagination to remote places and distant times. It has the capacity to tell a story from the remote past while hinting at an analogy with the present.”

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I may have to buy a copy of this as I have written copious notes and still want to go back to it.

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