The practical vision : essays in English literature in honour of Flora Roy / / edited by Jane Campbell, James Doyle

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1978
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 163 p. : port
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism; English literature - History and criticism
• Altri autori: RoyFlora DoyleJames <1937-> CampbellJane <1934->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes on Contributors -- The Offering of Isaac and the Artistry of Old English Genesis A -- The Harlot and the Mourning Bride -- "Restlesse anguish and unquiet paine": Spenser and the Complaint, 1579-1590 -- Berkeley and Newtonianism: the Principles (1710) and the Dialogues (1713) -- Wagner in The Waste Land -- The Third Eye: The Relationship Between D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Maeterlinck -- Iris Murdoch and Vladimir Nabokov: An Essay in Literary Realism and Experimentalism -- Malcolm Lowry: Statements on Literature and Film -- Margaret Drabble and the Search for Analogy -- "Any Modern City": The Urban Canadian Fiction of Richard B. Wright
• Sommario/riassunto: The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora Roy contains essays offered as a tribute on the occasion of Dr. Flora Roy’s retirement as a Canadian university teacher of English. These essays reflect the literary interests and administrative activities of Dr. Roy and demonstrate the relationship between literature and the perennial human urge to achieve understanding and control of both the subjective and objective worlds.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Practical Vision
• ISBN: 0-88920-867-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154973603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II