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Rather, it's what you end up with, a result of far more fundamental traits. Traits such as an ear and an eye and a heart, traits that Madeleine Blais has honed superbly well. The heart is surely first among Blais's gifts. Whether she is writing about the famous -- playwright Tennessee Williams, novelist Mary Gordon -- or about the least elevated among us -- a teenage prostitute infected with the AIDS virus, a homeless schizophrenic --she brings to her subjects an incomparable empathy.
It's not that she sides with them. She's uncompromising in her portraits. Rather, she seems to come to know them so completely that she can bring them to life: their strengths and weaknesses, their humanness.
She makes the mighty into normal mortals. She makes the strange comprehensible. One of the gifts she brings us is her ear, an ear that hears and records and remembers with remarkable clarity. This is a writer who recalls from childhood the curiosity-engaging quality of a headline like "Canadian Jury Acquits Man in.
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Read preview. Synopsis Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais is perhaps best known for her insightful essays chronicling the experiences of the disadvantaged and dispossessed members of our society. Eliot's Four Quartets , taking into account the reader-response theory of Wolfgang Iser , and the cyclical nature of East Coker. Morality in Fielding's novels. Catherine Cooper looks at four of Fielding's novels: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Amelia , and Shamela to consider whether the author presents a consistent moral attitude towards themes such as marriage, chastity, and infidelity.
In search of a new form. Manana Gelashvili shows how Faulkner's experimentation with the presentation of time began in his novel Sartoris. The characterisation of good and evil. Sarah Jones studies the main characters and themes in Greene's Brighton Rock. Naturalist drama and environmental influences. Lawrence's The Daughter-in-law and The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd , and John Galsworthy's Strife , show the powerful influence of the environment on the quality of human life. Satire in the work of Swift and Gay. She Stoops to Conquer: social and psychological contrasts.
Catherine Cooper shows how the themes of She Stoops to Conquer are developed through contrasts, such as between age and youth, city and country, and high and low social class, and finds that behind those superficial contrasts deeper psychological contrasts are being explored. Introducing Ernest Hemingway. Professor Ganesan Balakrishnan, Ph. Emma Jones considers the proposition: 'Endowed in certain respects with the sensibility of Margaret Fuller, the great campaigner for the rights of women, Hester Prynne is as much a woman of mid-nineteenth-century American culture as she is of seventeenth-century Puritan New England'.
Human morality and the laws of Nature. Ian Mackean looks at Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles to show how Hardy pits variable, changeable, human morality against the eternal laws of Nature. Ben Jonson Unmasked: A study of how Ben Jonson's plays reveal his changing attitudes to his fellow playwrights, the theatre as a medium, and his own role as a dramatist. Kathleen A.
Prendergast delves into Jonson's plays and uncovers a rich subtext in which Jonson was exploring his own role as a dramatist, showing that in the course of his career his attitudes changed in response to changing circumstances and his own developing maturity. The essay focuses on Poetaster, Volpone, and Bartholomew Fair. The development of psychoanalysis and orientation of the self in the context of twentieth century western societies.
Mark Norton looks at the social conditions which gave rise to the psychoanalytic movement, and introduces us to the work of Carl Gustav Jung.
His essay covers many topics, such as the growth of cities, the growth of mass movements, the rise of consumerism, and the decline of religion, as well as the growth of the psychoanalytic movement itself, which provide relevant background material for the study of twentieth century western literature. Will McManus studies James Joyce's novel.
Rebellion and release. Ian Mackean analyses some significant themes in Joyce's novel with particular focus on Chapters 1, 3, and 5. Stephen Dedalus - rebel without a cause?
Ben Foley studies James Joyce's A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man , showing how Stephen Dedalus is portrayed as an outsider, and how his alienation from the traditional voices of authority in his life contributes to his budding artistic talent. Jon Jost, the early films An introduction to the early films of the American independent film-maker Jon Jost, director of Sure Fire and All the Vermeers in New York , exploring the development of his work during his first twenty years of film-making. By Ian Mackean. The two worlds of the child: A study of the novels of three West Indian writers.
Ian Mackean looks at a novel which the critic Edward W Said called 'a rich and absolutley fascinating, but neverthrless profoundly embarrassing novel'. The sisters in D. Lawrence's Women In Love. Nitya Bakshi illuminates some of the themes of Lawrence's novel by examining the contrasting characters of the sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen.
Shadows on the mind. Hitting wintry waters. The devil's morals. Souvik Mukherjee studies the ethics in Machiavelli's The Prince 1, words. Liz Lewis studies two challenging novels by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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R K Narayan's vision of life. Can R.
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Narayan's view of life be understood in terms of Western concepts such as Existentialism or Nihilism? Amitangshu Acharya studies Narayan's novels and concludes that his view is closer to the Oriental philosophies of Hinduism and Buddhism. What about our own roots? Krishnan's journey in The English Teacher.
Ian Mackean offers an interpretation of a novel by one of India's best-known writers. With an additional commentary on the novel and excerpts from comments by Indian literary critics by S. Radhika Lakshmi. Amitangshu Acharya offers a reading of R K Narayan's novel The Guide in which he interprets the story in terms of Hindu philosophy, showing that Raju's journey is a struggle through Maya illusion towards Moksha liberation.
Pope's portrayal of Belinda and her society in The Rape of the Lock.
Ian Mackean studies Pope's mock-epic poem. Life, love, death, and poetry in the work of Brian Patten. Radhika Lakshmi introduces the poet Brian Patten, who emerged in the sixties as one of 'The Liverpool Poets', then looks at his treatment of the themes of life, love, and death in his work, and rounds off her essay with a look at his attitude to poetry itself.