Author: Dana Grove
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469297
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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).
A Rhetorical Analysis of Under the Volcano
Author: Dana Grove
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469297
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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).
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469297
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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).
Wandering through Guilt
Author: Paola Di Gennaro
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443879916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443879916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
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.
Perspectives on Self and Community in George Eliot
Author: Patricia Gately
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773485419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This text contains eight essays on the theme of perspective and perception in several of George Eliot's novels.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773485419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This text contains eight essays on the theme of perspective and perception in several of George Eliot's novels.
The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s
Author: Rob Jackaman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Making of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
Author: Frederick Asals
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820318264
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820318264
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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.
The Voyage that Never Ends
Author: Sherrill E. Grace
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774843454
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774843454
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
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.
South Atlantic Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Fiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann
Author: Jim Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
A Literary-critical Analysis of the Complete Prose Works of Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
Author: Barry Spurr
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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.