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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: 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...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)John Knowles writes, in general, not about his home turf but about New England or Europe. Only one novel, Vein of Riches, and that not his best, is about West Virginia, his childhood home. His fictional world is a...
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From: Names: Journal of the American Names Society[(essay date March 1986) In the following essay, Bryant attempts to find symbolic meaning in the names of Gene and Phineas, the two main characters of A Separate Peace.] John Knowles's popular novel, A Separate Peace,...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date fall 1965) In the following essay, Weber analyzes the critical comparisons between A Separate Peace and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, concluding that Knowles's use of narrative allows for a better...
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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...