Comparative Literary Dimensions: Essays in Honor of Melvin J. FriedmanJay L. Halio, Ben Siegel University of Delaware Press, 2000 - 224 pagina's Comparative Literary Dimensions, like its companion volume American Literary Dimensions, honors the memory of Melvin J. Friedman. The authors studied include James Joyce, Robert Graves, and Virginia Woolf. A wide range of classical and modern writers and literary themes and concepts are discussed by international scholar-critics such as Haskell Block, Zack Bowen, and Owen Aldrich. The volume concludes with Jackson Bryer's detailed bibliography of Melvin Friedman's singular contribution to the study of modern literature. |
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Pagina 13
... speaking / writing I , if he blots out , negates , cancels the words that have been him — his life ? " Livio Dobrez , in " Beckett Briefly on the Nature of Everything , " also considers Texts for Nothing , viewing it not only as a ...
... speaking / writing I , if he blots out , negates , cancels the words that have been him — his life ? " Livio Dobrez , in " Beckett Briefly on the Nature of Everything , " also considers Texts for Nothing , viewing it not only as a ...
Pagina 36
... speak to me.10 Claudius needs an audience whom the truth cannot help or hurt , an audience that is , therefore , " extremely remote " from his own place and time . To such distant readers he can address a history that is not only ...
... speak to me.10 Claudius needs an audience whom the truth cannot help or hurt , an audience that is , therefore , " extremely remote " from his own place and time . To such distant readers he can address a history that is not only ...
Pagina 37
... speak directly " to a posterity still extremely remote from him , to preserve the distance necessary for frankness while establishing the intimacy required by the role of confidant . Claudius , for all the modernity of his language and ...
... speak directly " to a posterity still extremely remote from him , to preserve the distance necessary for frankness while establishing the intimacy required by the role of confidant . Claudius , for all the modernity of his language and ...
Pagina 38
... speak out clearly and boldly . " 14 The shuffle and stammer that contaminate the physi- cal body of the living Claudius migrate in the course of the centuries to the textual bodies of others ; Claudius , writing only for posterity ...
... speak out clearly and boldly . " 14 The shuffle and stammer that contaminate the physi- cal body of the living Claudius migrate in the course of the centuries to the textual bodies of others ; Claudius , writing only for posterity ...
Pagina 39
... speak clear.15 The text is by no means self - explanatory , and Claudius must make use of all his experience as " a practiced diviner , a professional histo- rian and a priest who has had opportunities of studying the Sibylline books ...
... speak clear.15 The text is by no means self - explanatory , and Claudius must make use of all his experience as " a practiced diviner , a professional histo- rian and a priest who has had opportunities of studying the Sibylline books ...
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Comparative Literary Dimensions: Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman Jay L. Halio,Ben Siegel Fragmentweergave - 2000 |
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Abie's Irish Rose aesthetics African ALP's authentic Bagatelles Bakhtin becomes Caribbean Céline characters Clarissa Claudius Claudius the God comedy comic Comparative Literature concept contemporary Critical culture Dalloway Dante David Hayman discourse Drama Egnatius English epic essay ethnic Féerie Finnegans Wake Flannery O'Connor Friedman Friel genre Graves's Happy Days Harris Harris's human Ibid identity imagination introduction by Melvin James Joyce Jewish Joyce's language Literary Livia London Louis-Ferdinand Céline Luisa Luisa Valenzuela Maori means Melting Pot metaphor modern myths narrative narrator négritude novel novelist opening parody past Peter play poetry position post-colonial protagonist question reader Review rhetorical Robert Graves Samuel Beckett Scott Fitzgerald sense silence speak Studies tell theory things tion traditional tragedy Ulysses University Press Unnamable Valenzuela voice William Styron Willie Winnie Winnie's woman Woolf words writing York Zangwill Zangwill's
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Pagina 96 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Pagina 61 - I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me. And it's old and old it's sad and old it's sad and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold mad father, my cold mad feary father, till the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananoaning, makes me seasilt saltsick and I rush, my only, into your arms.
Pagina 87 - PRAYER 0 thou, wha in the Heavens dost dwell, Wha, as it pleases best thysel', Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell, A' for thy glory, And no for ony guid or ill They've done afore thee!
Pagina 102 - Welcome, O life ! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
Pagina 91 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Pagina 147 - What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air.
Pagina 90 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Pagina 90 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Pagina 137 - But what an extraordinary night! She felt somehow very like him — the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away.
Pagina 90 - That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh; That unmatch'd form and feature of blown