A Passage to IndiaIn this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism. |
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... senses Mrs. Moore's friendly sympathy toward him - a sense confirmed when Mrs. Moore speaks candidly of her distaste for Mrs. Callendar , the major's wife . Because Mrs. Moore is intuitively able to sense whom she likes and does not ...
... senses Mrs. Moore's friendly sympathy toward him - a sense confirmed when Mrs. Moore speaks candidly of her distaste for Mrs. Callendar , the major's wife . Because Mrs. Moore is intuitively able to sense whom she likes and does not ...
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... sense that the two women feel disconnected from each other . Their conversation on the train is somewhat tense and awk- ward , and at one point Mrs. Moore even dozes off while Adela con- tinues to speak . The image of a cocoon also ...
... sense that the two women feel disconnected from each other . Their conversation on the train is somewhat tense and awk- ward , and at one point Mrs. Moore even dozes off while Adela con- tinues to speak . The image of a cocoon also ...
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... sense that " life is a mystery , not a muddle , " in Forster's words . To fend off these uncomfortable ideas , the two find solace in scientific words like " hallucination , " or in the possibility that another culprit , such as Aziz's ...
... sense that " life is a mystery , not a muddle , " in Forster's words . To fend off these uncomfortable ideas , the two find solace in scientific words like " hallucination , " or in the possibility that another culprit , such as Aziz's ...
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CONTEXT | 1 |
ANALYSIS OF MAJOR CHARACTERS | 9 |
SUMMARY ANALYSIS | 20 |
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