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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... novel's pattern of metaphorical language records its pro- tagonist's journey towards psychic sta- bility . An essay ... novels seeks to demonstrate how Powys's writing evokes emotional and psycholog- ical strata perhaps unrealized in ...
... novel's pattern of metaphorical language records its pro- tagonist's journey towards psychic sta- bility . An essay ... novels seeks to demonstrate how Powys's writing evokes emotional and psycholog- ical strata perhaps unrealized in ...
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... novel is a challenge to Darwinian and Freudian views of the dynamics of history and that — though motivic patterns of death and renewal — it embraces a philosophy of history that falls more compatibly within the speculations of Speng ...
... novel is a challenge to Darwinian and Freudian views of the dynamics of history and that — though motivic patterns of death and renewal — it embraces a philosophy of history that falls more compatibly within the speculations of Speng ...
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... novel of about 1918 , contains Powys's only portrayals in fiction of distinctly urban ( or for that matter American ) ... novels deeper in the hinterland and history of Britain , mostly confining them to realizations of life among individ ...
... novel of about 1918 , contains Powys's only portrayals in fiction of distinctly urban ( or for that matter American ) ... novels deeper in the hinterland and history of Britain , mostly confining them to realizations of life among individ ...
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... novels — certainly the major ones— embody a quest that can justifiably be called religious . I do not , of course ... novel , would be a serious omission . " What was Religion ? " he asks in A Philosophy of Solitude ( 1936 ) . " It ...
... novels — certainly the major ones— embody a quest that can justifiably be called religious . I do not , of course ... novel , would be a serious omission . " What was Religion ? " he asks in A Philosophy of Solitude ( 1936 ) . " It ...
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... novels that have not only English settings but an appearance of regionalism . Set in the context of British ... novel , Wolf Solent , the reviewers turned to Ulysses for an appropriate compar- ison , a proper yardstick . In 1934 ...
... novels that have not only English settings but an appearance of regionalism . Set in the context of British ... novel , Wolf Solent , the reviewers turned to Ulysses for an appropriate compar- ison , a proper yardstick . In 1934 ...
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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.