E. M. Forster: A Literary LifeForster's literary career is assessed in relation to works that mark its phases: his suburban novels, the Indian novel, the BBC talks, and first and last, his short fiction. This study traces evidences of his keen awareness of political and social undercurrents as discovered in the works: the importance of personal relations, culture as a precious heritage, and the creative artist as definer of cultural values and encourager of those who should preserve them. |
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... character . Their great fault lay in their being too often compla- cent and too seldom uncertain about their place in the new scheme of things . They were absorbed in the minutiae of position and pres- tige and property - owning . They ...
... character . Their great fault lay in their being too often compla- cent and too seldom uncertain about their place in the new scheme of things . They were absorbed in the minutiae of position and pres- tige and property - owning . They ...
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... characters in Forster's fiction are those who have stopped learning ; some have never even begun . They drift anchorless through life and smash up smaller craft as they go . Thus his writings contain teachers of various kinds , a ...
... characters in Forster's fiction are those who have stopped learning ; some have never even begun . They drift anchorless through life and smash up smaller craft as they go . Thus his writings contain teachers of various kinds , a ...
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... character would discharge that duty well . His es- say , ' Notes on the English Character ' , sets forth both its virtues and its deficiencies . The middle class is ' the heart of England ' . Its values and mores had become the national ...
... character would discharge that duty well . His es- say , ' Notes on the English Character ' , sets forth both its virtues and its deficiencies . The middle class is ' the heart of England ' . Its values and mores had become the national ...
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... secure and seldom , if ever , idle . They were thrifty but not stingy in the uses of their worldly goods , for themselves and for others . They were not 2 ascetics . ' Deep in the Thorntons ' character , The Suburban Novels 9.
... secure and seldom , if ever , idle . They were thrifty but not stingy in the uses of their worldly goods , for themselves and for others . They were not 2 ascetics . ' Deep in the Thorntons ' character , The Suburban Novels 9.
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A Literary Life Mary Lago. ascetics . ' Deep in the Thorntons ' character , deeper even than they suspected , was the disinclination to inflict pain , ' Forster wrote , and that outlook also he inherited from them.4 Deeper , probably ...
A Literary Life Mary Lago. ascetics . ' Deep in the Thorntons ' character , deeper even than they suspected , was the disinclination to inflict pain , ' Forster wrote , and that outlook also he inherited from them.4 Deeper , probably ...
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