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Contents I. The Argument 1 II. The Fabricated Personality The White Peacock 16 III. An Allegory of Self The Trespasser 42 IV. Self-Encounter and the Unknown Self Sons and Lovers 62 V. Symbolic Transformation and the Impersonal "I" The Rainbow 106 VI. Dissolution and Reassertion Women in Love 151 VII. The Leadership Motif Aaron's R...
There is no doubt that The Waste Land has been one of the most (if not the most) influential poetical works of this century. As Brooker and Bentley point out, the poem has been a benchmark used by critical schools of thought to illustrate their own strengths and the weaknesses of other schools. Because of this, and because of the poem's lasting place in education and richness of theme and lan...
While the main focus of this volume is English-language literary modernism from 1890 to 1939, the scope is actually much broader. The collected entries draw rich connections between literary modernism of this period and other disciplines, precursors and successors, and modernist writers in other languages. Main entries include people (Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust), disciplines (Anth...
Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett - The Stoic Comedians
“Jack Stewart’s book will prove stimulating to Lawrence scholars and critics, advanced students, and sophisticated general readers. Exploring the boundaries shared by literature and painting, his book seeks to uncover the ‘hinterlands of the soul’ that lie behind expression. He compels new awareness of the baffling complexity of Lawrence’s mature work, frequently using but also transcending the wo...
Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to establish the status of writings by such authors as Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper and Whitman, Lawrence ...
Three short works of pyschological liberation from the author of Women in Love The three works collected in this volume, all written in 1924, explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. In St Mawr, Lou Witt buys a beautiful, untamable bay stallion and discovers an intense affinity with the horse that she cannot feel with her husband. This supe...
vor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that became known as the 'New Criticism'. Highly controversial when first published, Principles ...
D. H. Lawrence wrote these three 'novelettes' between November 1920 and December 1921; they were enthusiastically received by his English publisher and his readers. The ending of the first version of 'The Fox', written in December 1918, is given in an appendix; Lawrence added a 'long tail' two years later, expanding the story to about three times its original length. ...
The 20 century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20 century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of the...
For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," reading "Rosa Alchemica" is an experience of joy. Called by critics his best work of fiction, "Rosa Alchemica" incorporates not only the lush language and imagery of early Yeats, but also his personal interests: Irish culture, myth and legend, and his lifelong membership in th...
