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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"E. M. Forster"”.
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Marriage and Dialogue in the Novels of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence
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Howards end as a Heartbreak house: E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, the Great War, and the condition of the empire
This study focuses on E. M. Forster's Howards End (1910) and George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1919/20), the authors' relationship to contemporary liberal British imperialism, and the Great War. Both of the texts are considered by critics to belong to the "condition of England" theme, but the …
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‘A Balm for the Incurable Wound of the World’: Music and the Pictorial Mode in the Writing of E. M. Forster
… literature that there ‘is no doubt that E. M. Forster is our most musical novelist’. Although Britten argues that Forster shows ‘a most sensitive reaction to music’, he notes (and disapproves of) Forster’s ‘curious tendency to mock at any intellectual approach on behalf of the listener’. …
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Sight and Knowledge Disconnected: The Epistemology of the Visual and the Ideological Gaze in the Novels of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
… of Western ocularcentrism. First taking up E. M. Forster as a main figure and later shifting its point of focus to Virginia Woolf and finally to a contemporary author Zadie Smith, this dissertation examines how literature can respond when our long-standing belief in the sight’s ability to reach …
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Sex, aesthetics, and modernity in the British romance of Italy, 1870-1914
… Pater, J. A. Symonds, Vernon Lee, and E. M. Forster—used narratives about travel to Italy in order to articulate non-normative sexualities in terms of the foreign, the anachronistic, and the southern. In this study, I examine a set of texts from the turn of the last century that express or …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
… colonial India. It examines narratives by E. M. Forster, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi Devi and Rabindranath Tagore, which provide a romance setting for themes of East/West encounter. The necessity of addressing or accommodating the ""other"" in these texts creates the conditions for a certain …
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
… gentleman"" in the works of Thomas Hughes, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, and George Orwell. With its emphasis on the longue duree of the Victorian gentleman, the project stresses the post-imperial break-up of conventional languages and forms of masculinity after 1945, expanding the standard …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… capable of high art, to paraphrase E M Forster, and profound philosophical enquiry. I go on to emphasise the importance of radical innovation in crime fiction, placing subversion within the core genealogy of the genre rather than at its margins.<br/><br/>In the spirit of these findings, …
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“An Unquiet Soul”: Despair and Doubt of God’s Benevolence in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë
… She is one of those authors whom E. M. Forster described as moving the novel forward by creating “a new system of lighting” that elucidates the Victorians’ religious doubt.</p> <p>Brontë offers up several characters who possess neither certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain, who are …
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Irish modernism and the machine
"This dissertation argues that John Eglinton, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett depict machines in texts in order to interrogate the status of Ireland's modernity. Are trains, dynamos (power generators), and bicycles signs of Ireland’s progress? Instead of an affirmation, …