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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... talk was a completely new genre , a re - invention of the spoken word . He brought to it a uniquely personal style ... talk of 1946 , another time of transition whose future was difficult to forecast - although many dared . Again he ...
... talk was a completely new genre , a re - invention of the spoken word . He brought to it a uniquely personal style ... talk of 1946 , another time of transition whose future was difficult to forecast - although many dared . Again he ...
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... talk is quite different from the others ' . Theirs have the tone of scientists standing firmly on certainties confirmed in the labora- tory , or of academics arguing learnedly with one another . Forster speaks gently to the unseen ...
... talk is quite different from the others ' . Theirs have the tone of scientists standing firmly on certainties confirmed in the labora- tory , or of academics arguing learnedly with one another . Forster speaks gently to the unseen ...
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... talk about money , it's so ugly " ... a Victorian defence mechanism ' if ever there was one . Now all that had changed , and he speaks out of his experiences of India and Egypt : the so - called ' back- ward races ' , as well as the ...
... talk about money , it's so ugly " ... a Victorian defence mechanism ' if ever there was one . Now all that had changed , and he speaks out of his experiences of India and Egypt : the so - called ' back- ward races ' , as well as the ...
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... new technologies were younger still . Nevertheless , he invited the scientist to ' come down from his ivory laboratory ' and talk . The humanist's ascending the tower was no solution , for he keeps his bearings 4 E. M. Forster.
... new technologies were younger still . Nevertheless , he invited the scientist to ' come down from his ivory laboratory ' and talk . The humanist's ascending the tower was no solution , for he keeps his bearings 4 E. M. Forster.
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... talks for the BBC , Forster taught himself to pick and choose the best from that Victorian tradition of which he was a grateful if often irritated inheritor and ' fag - end ' . Facile accept- ance of ideas irritated him . In 1948 he ...
... talks for the BBC , Forster taught himself to pick and choose the best from that Victorian tradition of which he was a grateful if often irritated inheritor and ' fag - end ' . Facile accept- ance of ideas irritated him . In 1948 he ...
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