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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Muriel Spark"”.
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Beauty as transcendent in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Rumer Godden.
… in this project—Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Rumer Godden—all saw its potential for transcendence. Interestingly, they all had quite different ways of emphasizing beauty's transcendence in their writing. Waugh accomplished this by focusing on the role of the human person in …
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Muriel Spark’s Authorial Strategies
… answer to a problem that Scottish writer Muriel Spark (1918-2006) poses in her autobiography Curriculum Vitae (1992). There is a paradox in Spark’s way of narrating her autobiography since she offers us a crystalline and detailed depiction of her younger self up until the publication of …
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Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890--1960
… Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Muriel Spark, I suggest that modernist-era writers were concerned as to whether or not Oxbridge could: or should) preserve and transmit the version of liberal-humane culture that had long been associated with the universities. Beginning to doubt …
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
… lived in Japan), Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon, Muriel Spark, Yuko Matsumoto, Rieko Matsuura, Yoriko Shono, Yumiko Kurahashi. Their work is situated in relation to earlier imaginative writing, myth, legend and examples of the Gothic mode.
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Uncertainty Before and After Faith: The Dynamics of Belief in Theology and Literature
… Mauriac, Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, Mary Gordon, and Shusaku Endo. I will examine their novels through the lens of two paradigms: The experience of uncertainty as a catalyst for Christian faith and the experience of uncertainty as a challenge and possible critique of a …
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Waugh revisited : destabilizing language and structure in Vile bodies, A handful of dust, and Brideshead revisited by Jabe Ziino.
… British Catholic novelists-Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Evelyn Waugh-I realized the extent to which my enjoyment of Waugh greatly surpassed that of all my other readings. Jabe, I told myself, if you are going to spend a year of your precious young time on a literature thesis, you had …
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Aging well: Shaping age identities in the literature of the British welfare state
This dissertation traces a literary genealogy of old age and argues that British literature offers both a systematic challenge to the regulatory models of the life course solidified during the twentieth century and emerging from the welfare state, as well as a necessary caveat concerning recent …