Commonwealth Literature and the Modern WorldHena Maes-Jelinek Published under the sponsorship of the Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1975 - Commonwealth literature (English) - 181 pages |
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... Melville's Moby Dick , can rival the organic cosmopolis of races , bloods and cultural complexes invoked in the crew of Donne in Harris's first novel Palace of the Peacock . " The distin- guished student of West Indian social , cultural ...
... Melville's Moby Dick , can rival the organic cosmopolis of races , bloods and cultural complexes invoked in the crew of Donne in Harris's first novel Palace of the Peacock . " The distin- guished student of West Indian social , cultural ...
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... Melville's time , but he does believe that it is possible in our age of crisis for all mankind . He does believe that revolution can come out of a whole people , and that this is the only really revolutionary possibility . Revolution in ...
... Melville's time , but he does believe that it is possible in our age of crisis for all mankind . He does believe that revolution can come out of a whole people , and that this is the only really revolutionary possibility . Revolution in ...
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... Melville's characters , with few exceptions , unchangingly stand for what they signify ; they have unflickering essences . He sees his opposites as irreconcilable , with disastrous results for all , as in Benito Cereno . Harris's men ...
... Melville's characters , with few exceptions , unchangingly stand for what they signify ; they have unflickering essences . He sees his opposites as irreconcilable , with disastrous results for all , as in Benito Cereno . Harris's men ...
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African literature Afrikaans Albert Gomes Alfred Mendes Anna Rutherford Antipodean becomes Belgium Bobby and Linda British C. L. R. James Capricornia Caribbean century characters civilization colonial Commonwealth literature creative criticism cultural darkness death Edgar Wright Eliot English essay experience feel fiction Frank Collymore George Lamming Guyana H. I. E. Dhlomo Harris's heart human Ibadan Ibid imagination individual Janet Frame's journey Kyk-over-al language literary living London lover Lowry magazine Malcolm Lowry meaning Melville and Harris Melville's modern myth Naipaul narrative nature Nigerian novel novelists past Peacock Poem poet poetry political published Quartets Queely Radio reader Richard Devine Santosh says sense short story social society South African Susan symbol talk themes Tilted Cross tradition Trinidad University of Liège vision Waiting Room Walcott West Indian literature West Indian writers West Indies whole Wilson Harris Wole Soyinka Xhosa Zulu