In the Spirit of Powys: New EssaysDenis Lane Bucknell University Press, 1990 - 268 sider This work is a collection of essays on the work of John Cowper Powys, the English novelist and Nobel nominee. The critical intention of these essays is to provide a picture of Powys's achievement. |
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... become , paradoxically , less apparent . What I mean is that when the modernist movement ( let us date it 1914-39 ) descended into academic hands , the teachers began an effort to codify and rationalize its activities . Between 1940 and ...
... become , paradoxically , less apparent . What I mean is that when the modernist movement ( let us date it 1914-39 ) descended into academic hands , the teachers began an effort to codify and rationalize its activities . Between 1940 and ...
Side 9
... become threadbare without , however , ceasing to be epic . It is the style Powys discovered for maintaining the real presence of the gods in the abysmal residues of a late - empire world . Two other matters deserve notice . First ...
... become threadbare without , however , ceasing to be epic . It is the style Powys discovered for maintaining the real presence of the gods in the abysmal residues of a late - empire world . Two other matters deserve notice . First ...
Side 44
... become part of the documented history he is engaged in throughout most of the novel , would never rise above the level of parody as the " History of Dorset " clearly shows . It is precisely on this level of parody that there seems to be ...
... become part of the documented history he is engaged in throughout most of the novel , would never rise above the level of parody as the " History of Dorset " clearly shows . It is precisely on this level of parody that there seems to be ...
Side 45
... become involved at one point with his mother . In spite of this , Mrs. Solent flourishes , largely because of Wolf's cleverly sympathetic manner in dealing with her — a trait that reveals that he can cope with many variables at the same ...
... become involved at one point with his mother . In spite of this , Mrs. Solent flourishes , largely because of Wolf's cleverly sympathetic manner in dealing with her — a trait that reveals that he can cope with many variables at the same ...
Side 46
... become major and vice versa , revealing the level of the unexpected that takes place in life . The historian , like Wolf himself , on the other hand , engaged in the task of writing history has to go through an exercise of the ...
... become major and vice versa , revealing the level of the unexpected that takes place in life . The historian , like Wolf himself , on the other hand , engaged in the task of writing history has to go through an exercise of the ...
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The Elemental Image in Wolf Solent | 55 |
The mysterious word Esplumeoir and Polyphonic Structure in A Glastonbury Romance | 71 |
Rituals of Return | 86 |
Margins and Thresholds in Weymouth Sands | 112 |
John Cowper Powys and Nonbeing | 136 |
Maiden Castle and The Plumed Serpent | 157 |
Animating Fictions in Maiden Castle | 180 |
The Lie of the Land or Plot and Autochthony in John Cowper Powys | 193 |
Porius and the Cauldron of Rebirth | 214 |
Powysian Answers | 236 |
Contributors | 258 |
Index | 258 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
aboriginal Autobiography autochthonous Belinda Humfrey Blodeuwedd Brochvael cauldron Cavaliero Celtic chapter characters Christie consciousness Cordelia creative Creiddylad critical culture D. H. Lawrence dark dead death Dorset Dud's Eliot English erotic Esplumeoir essay Evans Evans's experience father feeling Finnegans Wake forces Geard genius loci Gerda Glastonbury Romance Grail human imagination James Joyce John Cowper Powys John Crow Joyce's landscape Lawrence's literature living Llewelyn Llewelyn Powys London magic Magnus Maiden Castle marginal mind Miss Drew modern Myrddin Myrddin Wyllt mysterious mystical myth narrative nature Nonbeing novelist occult passage past philosophy Plumed Serpent Porius Porius's Powys Review Powys's Powys's fiction Powys's novels Powysian present psychic quest Quetzalcoatl Ramón reader reading reality rebirth reprint Ridge scene seems sense soul spirit story suggest things thought tion turn Ulysses University Uryen vision Welsh Weymouth Sands Wilson Knight Wizzie Wolf Solent Wolf's word writing
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Side 181 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Side 250 - Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
Side 39 - It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.
Side 254 - We travel not for trafficking alone : By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned: For lust of knowing what should not be known We make the golden journey to Samarkand.
Side 247 - And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins ; who's in, who's out...
Side 74 - What unfolds in his works is not a multitude of characters and fates in a single objective world, illuminated by a single authorial consciousness; rather a plurality of consciousnesses, with equal rights and each with its own world, combine but are not merged in the unity of the event.