In the Spirit of Powys: New EssaysDenis Lane This work is a collection of essays on the work of John Cowper Powys, the English novelist and Nobel nominee. The critical intention of these essays is to provide a picture of Powys's achievement. |
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... chapter of A Glaston- bury Romance illustrates precisely what Lane calls to our attention . The great waves of the far Atlantic , rising from the surface of unusual spring tides , were drawn , during the first two weeks of that ...
... chapter of A Glaston- bury Romance illustrates precisely what Lane calls to our attention . The great waves of the far Atlantic , rising from the surface of unusual spring tides , were drawn , during the first two weeks of that ...
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... Glastonbury's last chapter . Powys , for example , so loosens the syntax of the partici- ples in the third sentence that the prose begins to eddy and wander . His language has been so overloaded with repetitive details and FOREWORD 9.
... Glastonbury's last chapter . Powys , for example , so loosens the syntax of the partici- ples in the third sentence that the prose begins to eddy and wander . His language has been so overloaded with repetitive details and FOREWORD 9.
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... chapter " Modern Fiction " contributed by Powys to the symposium Sex in the Arts in 1932 , and never reprinted , and a lengthy review of Finnegans Wake , published in Modern Reading in 1943 and collected in the gathering of Powys's ...
... chapter " Modern Fiction " contributed by Powys to the symposium Sex in the Arts in 1932 , and never reprinted , and a lengthy review of Finnegans Wake , published in Modern Reading in 1943 and collected in the gathering of Powys's ...
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... chapters that appeared in the pages of the courageous Little Review . It is a mistake to read any novel in serial form . . . . Between 1918 and 1922 Jordan Smith must have succumbed some- what to Powys's arguments , for he purchased a ...
... chapters that appeared in the pages of the courageous Little Review . It is a mistake to read any novel in serial form . . . . Between 1918 and 1922 Jordan Smith must have succumbed some- what to Powys's arguments , for he purchased a ...
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... Chapters of Going Forth by Day , " published in the September 1941 issue of Horizon and now appended to Budgen's classic James Joyce and the Making of " Ulysses " : Frank Budgen speaks with the weight of one who not only knew Joyce and ...
... Chapters of Going Forth by Day , " published in the September 1941 issue of Horizon and now appended to Budgen's classic James Joyce and the Making of " Ulysses " : Frank Budgen speaks with the weight of one who not only knew Joyce and ...
Contents
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The Elemental Image in Wolf Solent | 55 |
The mysterious word Esplumeoir and Polyphonic Structure in A Glastonbury Romance | 71 |
Rituals of Return | 86 |
Margins and Thresholds in Weymouth Sands | 112 |
John Cowper Powys and Nonbeing | 136 |
Maiden Castle and The Plumed Serpent | 157 |
Animating Fictions in Maiden Castle | 180 |
The Lie of the Land or Plot and Autochthony in John Cowper Powys | 193 |
Porius and the Cauldron of Rebirth | 214 |
Powysian Answers | 236 |
Contributors | 258 |
Index | 258 |
Common terms and phrases
aboriginal Autobiography autochthonous Belinda Humfrey Blodeuwedd Brochvael cauldron Cavaliero Celtic chapter characters Christie consciousness Cordelia creative Creiddylad critical culture D. H. Lawrence dark dead death Dorset Dud's Eliot English erotic Esplumeoir essay Evans Evans's experience father feeling Finnegans Wake forces Geard genius loci Gerda Glastonbury Romance Grail human imagination James Joyce John Cowper Powys John Crow Joyce's landscape Lawrence's literature living Llewelyn Llewelyn Powys London magic Magnus Maiden Castle marginal mind Miss Drew modern Myrddin Myrddin Wyllt mysterious mystical myth narrative nature Nonbeing novelist occult passage past philosophy Plumed Serpent Porius Porius's Powys Review Powys's Powys's fiction Powys's novels Powysian present psychic quest Quetzalcoatl Ramón reader reading reality rebirth reprint Ridge scene seems sense soul spirit story suggest things thought tion turn Ulysses University Uryen vision Welsh Weymouth Sands Wilson Knight Wizzie Wolf Solent Wolf's word writing
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