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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... civilization and in contact with nature as it had been for millenia - Melville as a sailor on whalers and a man - of - war and living for a short time with native peoples in the South Pacific , and Harris as a surveyor in the interior ...
... civilization and in contact with nature as it had been for millenia - Melville as a sailor on whalers and a man - of - war and living for a short time with native peoples in the South Pacific , and Harris as a surveyor in the interior ...
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... civilization will come in the imaginable future . That bitter novel , The Confidence - Man , voices near - despair , salvaging only the merest grain of hope , and no Melville novel besides Moby - Dick imagines such spec- tacular change ...
... civilization will come in the imaginable future . That bitter novel , The Confidence - Man , voices near - despair , salvaging only the merest grain of hope , and no Melville novel besides Moby - Dick imagines such spec- tacular change ...
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... civilization . Harris , in a more critical and rapidly - changing time than Melville's , sees the possibility of a qualitative leap in social development , which had not yet ripened in the earlier time . But there is no difference ...
... civilization . Harris , in a more critical and rapidly - changing time than Melville's , sees the possibility of a qualitative leap in social development , which had not yet ripened in the earlier time . But there is no difference ...
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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