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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Side 10
... Past , a work like Glastonbury invokes principles of form only in order to generate the thick materia of substantive creation . It is , in this respect , much closer in kind to Finnegans Wake than it is to Ulysses . This stylistic ...
... Past , a work like Glastonbury invokes principles of form only in order to generate the thick materia of substantive creation . It is , in this respect , much closer in kind to Finnegans Wake than it is to Ulysses . This stylistic ...
Side 43
... past and analyses of past events , even though fragmentary , incomplete , and elusive , cannot be achieved . The past is a construct ( of evidence , sources , hypotheses , hearsay , letters , documents , fiction , poetry , books , works ...
... past and analyses of past events , even though fragmentary , incomplete , and elusive , cannot be achieved . The past is a construct ( of evidence , sources , hypotheses , hearsay , letters , documents , fiction , poetry , books , works ...
Side 45
... past have never stopped being played . In chess , the pieces move back and forth on the field of action , and their number and type are limited and well - defined , each piece having a specific pattern of motion , both offensive and ...
... past have never stopped being played . In chess , the pieces move back and forth on the field of action , and their number and type are limited and well - defined , each piece having a specific pattern of motion , both offensive and ...
Side 46
... past . A historian's mode of discovery — in - vention — is analagous to someone engaged in piecing together a puzzle or reading an un- known or lost script ; he presumes there are pieces that will fall into place and achieve an accurate ...
... past . A historian's mode of discovery — in - vention — is analagous to someone engaged in piecing together a puzzle or reading an un- known or lost script ; he presumes there are pieces that will fall into place and achieve an accurate ...
Side 47
... past can only be suggested in a puzzle or hieroglyph , never captured integrally . What was once active , interrelated , and fleshly is reduced to a few flat pieces of cardboard or symbols on stone that can be analyzed using patience ...
... past can only be suggested in a puzzle or hieroglyph , never captured integrally . What was once active , interrelated , and fleshly is reduced to a few flat pieces of cardboard or symbols on stone that can be analyzed using patience ...
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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.