Robertson Davies: A Mingling of ContrarietiesCamille R. La Bossière, Linda M. Morra University of Ottawa Press, 2001 - 178 páginas This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between." The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies oeuvre and represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies' work since his death in 1995. Publishled in English. |
Índice
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The Humour of Robertson Davies | 33 |
Shadows of Determinism in the Salterton Novels | 45 |
Robertson Davies and Shamanstvo | 57 |
The Leaven of Wine and Spirits in the Fiction of Robertson Davies | 67 |
Postmodern Elements in the Plays of Robertson Davies | 81 |
Doubling in World of Wonders | 99 |
Hermeneutics Artifice and Authenticity in Robertson Davies Whats Bred in the Bone | 111 |
The Myth and Magic of a Textual Truth andor a Metaphorical Reading of The Deptford Trilogy | 125 |
Questioning Contradictions and Ethics in The Cornish Triptych | 147 |
Medical Consultation for Murther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man | 157 |
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Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties Camille La Bossière,Linda M. Morra Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties Camille R. La Bossière,Linda M. Morra Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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Página 1 - To see her beauties no man needs to stoop, She has the whole horizon for her hoop. 4. The ANTITHESIS, or SEE-SAW,! whereby contraries and oppositions are balanced in such a way, as to cause a reader to remain suspended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation. Such are these on a lady, who made herself appear out of size, by hiding a young princess under her clothes : — While the kind nymph, changing her faultless shape, Becomes unhandsome, handsomely to 'scape.