The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora RoyWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1978 M07 4 - 163 pages 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. |
Contents
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The Harlot and the Mourning Bride | 13 |
Spenser and the Complaint 15791590 | 29 |
the Principles 1710 and the Dialogues 1713 | 49 |
Wagner in The Waste Land | 71 |
The Relationship Between D H Lawrence and Maurice Maeterlinck | 87 |
An Essay in Literary Realism and Experimentalism | 103 |
Statements on Literature and Film | 119 |
Margaret Drabble and the Search for Analogy | 133 |
The Urban Canadian Fiction of Richard B Wright | 151 |
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