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Informationen zum Autor John Fraser lives near Rome. Previously, he worked in England and Canada. Klappentext John Fraser's critical essays explore conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Zusammenfassung John Fraser's critical essays explore conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Important concerns that touch these essays are ideas of energy! power! and personal plenitude! and the way in which idealism and heroic intensity can sometimes lead to overstrain and collapse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I: 1. Prospero's book: The Tempest revisited; 2. Dust and dreams and The Great Gatsby; 3. In defence of culture: Huckleberry Finn; 4. Othello and honour; 5. The name of action: Nelly Dean and Wuthering Heights; 6. Crime and forgiveness: The Red Badge of Courage in time of war; 7. Rereading Traven's The Death Ship; Part II: 8. A dangerous book?: The Story of O; 9. Yvor Winters: the perils of mind; 10. Mr Frye and evaluation; 11. Swift and the decay of letters; Part III: 12. Theories and practices: the Hammonds' The Village Labourer; 13. George Sturt's apprenticeship; 14. Atget and the city; 15. Reflections on the organic community; Notes.
