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Robert Louis Stevenson's romantic novels: an experiment in genre
… Stevenson sometimes imitates earlier writers of romance, sometimes differs from them. He imitates traditional romance by including the motifs of love, adventure, combat, and quest. He juxtaposes good and evil and makes good defeat evil. He deviates from traditional romance, however, by …
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Language, Character and Decision in Robert Louis Stevenson
… In his 1885 essay ‘On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature’, Robert Louis Stevenson refers to literature as ‘a strange art’ which, unlike its sister arts of painting and sculpture, is ‘condemned to work’ with ‘blocks’ of ‘arbitrary size and figure’: that is, with words. This thesis …