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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... represents the loss of all desire and power , things he never possessed , but tantalising images of what might have been possible , everything desired , always in the future . This is summed up by the overriding metaphor that the summer ...
... represents the loss of all desire and power , things he never possessed , but tantalising images of what might have been possible , everything desired , always in the future . This is summed up by the overriding metaphor that the summer ...
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... represents those paternalistic English assumptions about Ireland under the reign of the Ascendancy which can be traced back to the sixteenth - century Spenser's term of office in Ireland . As an ' Edward ' , he represents the troubles ...
... represents those paternalistic English assumptions about Ireland under the reign of the Ascendancy which can be traced back to the sixteenth - century Spenser's term of office in Ireland . As an ' Edward ' , he represents the troubles ...
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... represents the ' true old England ' under attack from new social forces , including the power of money as a value taking the place of all other values . In Mansfield Park England is saved , but in The Singapore Grip we have no Fanny and ...
... represents the ' true old England ' under attack from new social forces , including the power of money as a value taking the place of all other values . In Mansfield Park England is saved , but in The Singapore Grip we have no Fanny and ...
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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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