The Windings Of The Labyrinth
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Author | : Peter Thoms |
Publisher | : Athens : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author of such feats of storytelling as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins has traditionally been recognized far more than for his accomplishments as a serious novelist. In this study of The Moonstone, Peter Thoms argues for a new appreciation of this early master of detection and intrigue. Plotting in Collins, Thoms contends, represents much more than the skillful carpentry of the novelist: It constitutes the essential drama of the major novels themselves, as protagonists struggle for control of the stories in which they find themselves embedded. "Mr. Thoms' scholarly contribution is in recognizing an important constructive quality in Collins' evident fascination with intricate and intriguing plotting. Other critics, he says, have tended to single out Collins' plots as indications of his superficiality as a writer. Mr. Thoms' study does, in fact, demonstrate that there is much more to Collins' elaborate plots than the delights of suspense and detection. So his main claim is justified in that he increases our respect for the ramifications of Collins' story-telling techniques." -John R. Reed The Windings of the Labyrinth asserts that the structures of Collins's major novels possess surprising sophistication - that each of these novels elaborates a quest for identity, and that this quest for a personal story is intimately tied to the emergence of the novel's structure. In reappraising Collins's achievement, Thoms has written an accessible study that will be of interest no only to Victorian scholars, readers of Collins, and students of detective fiction but to anyone interested in the relationship between a novel's plot and its meaning.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Labyrinths in literature |
ISBN | : 0791098044 |
In literature, labyrinths can represent many things: complication and difficulty, interconnectedness, creativity, and even literature itself. This new title discusses the role of the labyrinth in “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Great Expectations, Ulysses, and many others. The Labyrinth unravels this theme for literature students through 19 critical essays.
Author | : Arthur Bernard Cook |
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Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Classical antiquities |
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Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Mythology, Classical |
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1528782801 |
Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls’ is a book written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864), and forms the sequel to ‘A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys’. It is a masterful re-writing of well-known Greek myths, all presented in one volume, for a younger audience. Hawthorne originally penned the work, after a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to the Wonder Book. It contains the myths of ‘The Minotaur’, 'The Pygmies', ‘The Dragon’s Teeth’ ‘Circe’s Palace’, ‘The Pomegranate Seeds’ and ‘The Golden Fleece’. These classic stories in ‘Tanglewood Tales’ are accompanied by the truly beautiful illustrations of Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900 – 1931). Presented alongside the text, her illustrations further refine and elucidate Hawthorne’s masterful storytelling. Sterrett was an American artist and illustrator – one of the most talented, though also most tragic, of the ‘Golden Age’ illustrators. Sterrett’s illustrations are delicate yet powerful, inspired by the tradition of Art Nouveaux with its light washes of colour and sinuous black lines. She only completed three works in her lifetime, due to her early death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one. These include Old French Fairy Tales (1920), Tanglewood Tales (1921) and Arabian Nights (1928). Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s classics and fairy tales – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1883 |
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