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The private legacy, passed on through the decades in hints and secret deductions, is the story of Cecil's love for George, which Mr. Hollinghurst presents as a model and emblem of the gay counter-tradition in English literature.
The (Private) Lives of the Poets Adam Kirsch 2011
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Of course there is a small but stubborn counter-tradition to suburb-phobia, most famously in the stories and novels of John Updike and John Cheever.
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Benjamin develops this ideal of exact, imaginative, in-motion form largely through his formidable engagements with the formidable artists of the Baudelairean lyric counter-tradition.
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003
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Sanina, and Huweisa became a convert to Islam, is contradicted by another counter-tradition in Ibn Hisham (pp. 554-555), who has related from Abú Obeida, who relates from Abú Omar-al-Madaní, that, "during the execution of the Bani Koreiza (_vide_ para. 68), one Káb-bin-Yahooza was made over to Muheiasa for execution.
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