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From: English Journal[(essay date December 1965) In the following essay, Witherington discusses the ambiguous nature of appearances in A Separate Peace and contends that what seems simple in the novel often exists within a more complicated...
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From: University Review[(essay date spring 1970) In the following essay, Wolfe provides a thematic outline of the major events and motives in A Separate Peace.] John Knowles's concern with morality colors all his books. This preoccupation...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the excerpt below, Weber contrasts Knowles's narrative technique in A Separate Peace with that of J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye.] Professor Halio's recent appreciation of the two short novels of John...
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From: Censored Books: Critical ViewpointsIn the following excerpt, Holborn describes A Separate Peace as a novel about war, especially within the human heart. It is hard to imagine a book that has more to say to youth about to enter the conflict-ridden adult...
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From: The Sporting Myth and the American Experience: Studies in Contemporary Fiction[(essay date 1975) In the following excerpt, Umphlett compares A Separate Peace to Mark Harris's Bang the Drum Slowly, arguing that both novels utilize the plot device of having an athlete die in his prime as a catalyst...
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From: A Separate Peace[(essay date 1990) In the following excerpt, Bryant traces the creation of the setting of the Devon School in A Separate Peace by drawing upon printed interviews with Knowles, essays, and Knowles's early short stories.]...
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From:Literature Resource Center[Alton is a member of an honorary research association at the University of Sydney, Australia. In the following essay, she places A Separate Peace within three distinct literary traditions and examines the novel's...
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From: Discourse[(essay date summer 1968) In the following essay, Nora demonstrates how Knowles altered the real landscape of Phillips Exeter Academy, his alma mater, to suit the fictional needs of A Separate Peace.] When Gene...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)First-novel success is both a blessing and a curse. It assures the young writer of an eager publisher and public for subsequent books, but also guarantees an uphill struggle with the critics. New novels will always be...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date fall 1974) In the following essay, Kennedy examines how Knowles utilizes the character of Gene in A Separate Peace to present a dual nature perspective through both Gene's juvenile and adult personalities.]...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersJohn Knowles is best known for his first opus: A Separate Peace. The awards granted this work suggest one reason for its enormous popularity and persistence, especially in the academic milieu: it is a very useful text...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 98. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:A Separate Peace (novel) 1959Morning in Antibes (novel) 1962Double Vision: American Thoughts Abroad (travel essays) 1964Indian Summer (novel) 1966Phineas: Six Stories (short stories) 1968The...
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From: English Journal[In the following excerpt, Mengeling examines allusions to classical myth, particularly Greek mythology, in A Separate Peace.] There is an obvious pattern of Greek allusions in A Separate Peace. At one important point...
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From: Canadian Review of American Studies[(essay date fall 1984) In the following essay, Slethaug maintains that A Separate Peace attempts to embody and contrast the two conceptions of play--that of agon and paidia--in the two main characters of Gene and...
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From: English Journal[(essay date May 1964) In the following essay, Ellis describes how A Separate Peace demonstrates Gene's emotional, physical, and moral evolution from adolescence to adulthood.] To read A Separate Peace is to discover a...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, McGavran attempts to construct a clearer definition of the relationship between Phineas and Gene in A Separate Peace, discussing whether Gene wanted to be like, be with, or...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the following excerpt, Kennedy asserts that the reader must be cognizant of Knowles's dual perspective narrator to fully understand the role of Phineas.] A Separate Peace is narrated by two Gene Forresters, one of...
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From: English Journal[(essay date December 1969) In the following essay, Mengeling offers a critical reading of A Separate Peace, interpreting the novel as a modern Greek myth.] As Americans we have always been hotly concerned with growth...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the following excerpt, Halio praises Knowles's first two novels, A Separate Peace, and Morning in Antibes , assigning a superior position to the former work.] [It is] heartening to see a few like John Knowles who,...
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From: Notes on Contemporary Literature[(essay date September 1975) In the following essay, Travis identifies commonalities between A Separate Peace and Gunter Grass'sCat and Mouse.] Mirror Images in A Separate Peace and Cat and Mouse Considering John...