Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J.G. FarrellFour Courts Press, 1997 - 173 halaman Troubled Pleasures is a critical re-examination of the fiction of J.G. Farrell, whose work has suffered a generation of literary eclipse. It argues powerfully for his status as a significant twentieth-century novelist. |
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... Novel ( 1927 ) to illustrate his sense of flat characters . And indeed , like Austen's , Farrell's characters are frequently flat , tending towards caricature . There is also a Sir Thomas in this novel , the hapless Governor of ...
... Novel ( 1927 ) to illustrate his sense of flat characters . And indeed , like Austen's , Farrell's characters are frequently flat , tending towards caricature . There is also a Sir Thomas in this novel , the hapless Governor of ...
Halaman 122
... novel as a ' finale in a minor key'.1 In this apt phrase Gooneratne highlights the tendency of critics to view the novel as a minor postscript to Scott's major work , The Raj Quartet . Gooneratne's phrase provides a partic- ularly ...
... novel as a ' finale in a minor key'.1 In this apt phrase Gooneratne highlights the tendency of critics to view the novel as a minor postscript to Scott's major work , The Raj Quartet . Gooneratne's phrase provides a partic- ularly ...
Halaman 125
... novel , which explores the moral and intellectual sickness of society ( a subject of all Farrell's fiction ) shortly before the First World War , is set in a sanitorium - and Simla , like Davos ( the location of Mann's novel ) , was ...
... novel , which explores the moral and intellectual sickness of society ( a subject of all Farrell's fiction ) shortly before the First World War , is set in a sanitorium - and Simla , like Davos ( the location of Mann's novel ) , was ...
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PREFACE | 9 |
J G Farrell in Context 5 122 104 | 26 |
A Man from Elsewhere and The Lung | 37 |
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