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John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#348687-VD30
Titel	John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance
Auteur	Clare, Johanne
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Kingston/Montreal : McGill Queen's University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1987
ISBN10	0773506063
ISBN13	9780773506060
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The author suggests that the full significance of Clare's contribution to English literature is found not in his social criticism, but in his refusal to dissociate himself from his past or to become assimilated into the mainstream of English culture at the expense of his class-identity. She argues that a clear set of aesthetic principles informs his finest work and provides the first thematic and structural classification of his poetry. Focussing on the major vocational poems and selected passages from the prose, she shows how Clare formulated the creative ideas and rhetorical techniques that allowed him to give unified expression to both his social and literary concerns. Clare's deep involvement with nature and rural England was not only the basis for his poetry, but also enabled him to a... (Lees verder)rticulate beliefs which opposed the inhumane values of his time.
Pagina's	217
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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