Download or read book A Rhetorical Analysis of Under the Volcano written by Dana Grove and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a rhetorical exploration of Malcolm Lowry's novel Under the Volcano, which seeks to elucidate the techniques that Lowry employed to amplify the fragmentation of the Consul and his world. It offers a critical examination of the book, on a chapter-by-chapter basis, for its techniques, themes and sources. This study seeks to provide a synthesis of what has been thought and said about the novel. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of other critical studies of Under the Volcano (including book reviews).
Download or read book Wandering through Guilt written by Paola Di Gennaro and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study on the pattern of guilt and wandering in literature, this book examines the relationship between the two complex concepts as they appear in twentieth-century novels, positing its methodological premises on archetypal criticism and both close and distant reading, but also drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, and religion. This research deciphers a common paradigm and literary representation whose archetype within Western literature is found in the biblical figure of Cain, while presenting a critical framework valid for boundary-crossing comparative approaches. From Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, to Wolfgang Koeppen’s Death in Rome and Ōoka Shōhei’s Fires on the Plain, this book is not merely a thematic study, but an analysis of the literary phenomena that appear in those novels where the sense of guilt is controversially subjective, or so collective as to be perceived as universal, as is often the case with war and postwar literature. Di Gennaro goes beyond the analysis of explicit rewritings of the story of Cain, in order to uncover the monomyth through its rhetorical structures and mythical methods. The wasteland with no religion; the lost, abandoned garden; the classical and religiously-corrupted city; and the tropical, cannibalistic island at war are the respective settings of these narratives, where the issue is neither homelessness nor journeying, but, rather, the desperate and futile movement toward self-consciousness, or self-destruction. After the Second World War, much was silenced rather than left unsaid. This study retraces those silent cries over history through the powerful literary marks of myths.
Download or read book Perspectives on Self and Community in George Eliot written by Patricia Gately and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text contains eight essays on the theme of perspective and perception in several of George Eliot's novels.
Download or read book The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s written by Rob Jackaman and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book The Making of Malcolm Lowry s Under the Volcano written by Frederick Asals and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years in the making, Under the Volcano is the best-known work of writer Malcolm Lowry. Published first in 1947, it is a brilliant, moving, and complex novel, perhaps the last fictional masterpiece to emerge from the modernist movement. As the years went by, Lowry's obsessive rewriting took him further and further into his book, which changed relatively little in the outer semblance of action and main characters but became utterly transformed in texture from the thin and mediocre version of 1940 to the rich tapestry of 1947. The numerous manuscripts allow a look at the processes by which Lowry created not only his masterwork but also his own reputation as a modernist genius. This study offers an extended examination of individual drafts as the novel slowly developed and, in a final chapter, an appraisal of the implications of Lowry's revisions for the book as published, an appraisal that suggests bases for new readings of Under the Volcano.
Download or read book The Voyage that Never Ends written by Sherrill E. Grace and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherrill Grace shows how Malcolm Lowry's theme of a cyclical pattern of initiation, repeated ordeals with failure and retreat, followed by success and development, which in turn gave way to fresh defeat, influenced the structure, narrative style, and the symbolic pattern in his writing. The author also includes an appendix in which she examines the elements of Conrad Aiken's fiction and prose that had a significant impact on Lowry's work.
Download or read book South Atlantic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Volcano written by Malcolm Lowry and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
Download or read book Fiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann written by Jim Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the uses of myth and symbol in Lowry and Mann's major works and finds some remarkable similarities that exist because of structural tradition. Both authors are consciously and unconsciously continuing a tradition that can be traced to the beginning of literature in the Western world.
Download or read book A Literary critical Analysis of the Complete Prose Works of Lytton Strachey 1880 1932 written by Barry Spurr and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of a detailed reading of all Strachey's works and of the Strachey Papers in the British Library, this study argues against the presentations of Strachey as a mere debunker of reputation and belletristic literary critic.
Download or read book A Literary Biography of William Tennant written by Harry D. Watson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Tennant (1784-1848) has been called the most original Scottish poet of his period. This biography re-evaluates Tennant's poetic oeuvre and his often intensely localized characters and settings are explained and contextualized. Tennant's many prose essays, translations and linguistic works are also reviewed, providing a complete account of the neglected Scottish man of letters.
Download or read book A Study of Cultural Centres and Margins in British Poetry Since 1950 written by Rob Jackaman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as offering an interpretive overview, the book is valuable in suggesting different perspectives on the poetry of specific key figures writing in Britain, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney.
Download or read book A Study of George MacDonald and the Image of Woman written by David Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the theory that MacDonald wrote his fantasies out of his private inner world. It throws light on the association in the human mind between woman and death.
Download or read book Hannah More s Coelebs in Search of a Wife written by Karen Swallow Prior and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides both an introduction to the genre of the didactic religious novel and the culture of evangelicalism that was developing halfway through Hannah More's life, reaching its full flowering at about the time of her death in 1833.
Download or read book Seductive Strategies in the Novels of Anthony Trollope 1815 1882 written by Laurent Bury and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. On sundry seductresses; 2. The art of charming the senses; 3. Refinement and barbarity; 4. Angels and demons; 5. Social seduction; 6. The writer as seducer: first attempts; 7. To please or not to please; 8. Anti-seduction and self-seduction; Bibliography; Index; Names Cited
Download or read book Geoffrey Scott and the Berenson Circle written by Richard Maxwell Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of writer, architect, aesthete and editor Geoffrey Scott (1884-1929). His Architecture of Humanism was considered the most important statement about architecture since Ruskin, and was used as a basic text in architectural schools for many years. The Portrait of Zelide won the James Tait Memorial Black Prize. Scott was also a prominent figure in social and intellectual circles in London, Florence and New York. A protege of Bernard and Mary Berenson, he spent many years living and working at the art historian's villa outside Florence.
