The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora Roy contains essays offered as a tribute on the occasion of Dr. Flora Roy’s retirement as a Canadian university teacher of English.
These essays reflect the literary interests and administrative activities of Dr. Roy and demonstrate the relationship between literature and the perennial human urge to achieve understanding and control of both the subjective and objective worlds.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 820.9
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780889208674 0889200661
- LCCN
- PR14
- LCCN Item number
- W67 1978eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 163 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326826 (OCoLC)243568799 (CaOOCEL)402634
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Introduction 10
- Notes on Contributors 16
- The Offering of Isaac and the Artistry of Old English Genesis A 18
- The Harlot and the Mourning Bride 30
- "Restlesse anguish and unquiet paine": Spenser and the Complaint, 1579-1590 46
- Berkeley and Newtonianism: the Principles (1710) and the Dialogues (1713) 66
- Wagner in The Waste Land 88
- The Third Eye: The Relationship Between D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Maeterlinck 104
- Iris Murdoch and Vladimir Nabokov: An Essay in Literary Realism and Experimentalism 120
- Malcolm Lowry: Statements on Literature and Film 136
- Margaret Drabble and the Search for Analogy 150
- "Any Modern City": The Urban Canadian Fiction of Richard B. Wright 168
