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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Page 52
... Susan Forrestal ( we make the equation because Susan's existence is a state of waiting ) , and the novel opens on her as a married woman in her early forties , now almost blind after three unsuccessful eye - operations . What she is ...
... Susan Forrestal ( we make the equation because Susan's existence is a state of waiting ) , and the novel opens on her as a married woman in her early forties , now almost blind after three unsuccessful eye - operations . What she is ...
Page 53
... Susan and the vanished lover : they are conceived as ready for natural extension into the elements and cosmos . The log - book , conven- tionally the journal in which the bearings and rate of progress on a sea- voyage are recorded , is ...
... Susan and the vanished lover : they are conceived as ready for natural extension into the elements and cosmos . The log - book , conven- tionally the journal in which the bearings and rate of progress on a sea- voyage are recorded , is ...
Page 57
... Susan's state of blindness , for its development towards completion . There is the same acceptance of agents of ... Susan drew the palm of her hand slowly across her face as if it had turned to stone . ( p . 17 ) Susan drew a rigid hand ...
... Susan's state of blindness , for its development towards completion . There is the same acceptance of agents of ... Susan drew the palm of her hand slowly across her face as if it had turned to stone . ( p . 17 ) Susan drew a rigid hand ...
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