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• LEARNING TO BE A FAILURE: TROPES OF TRANSFORMATION IN JAMES WRIGHT'S THE BRANCH WILL NOT BREAK.

  Author:Todd CopelandFrom:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20214,618 words Critical essay THE LATE 1950s were years of heady success and personal growth for James Wright. His first book of poetry, The Green Wall, was published in 1957 as the winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, and...

• SLENDER SELF-KNOWLEDGE: TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES AND REDEMPTIVE HOPE IN SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR AND AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.

  Author:David V. UrbanFrom:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20216,351 words Critical essay As VARIOUS critics of Pride and Prejudice have discussed and as readers of Austen continue to recognize, Elizabeth Bennet's response to Mr. Darcy's letter--which he writes Elizabeth immediately after her harsh rejection...

• "NEW KNOWLEDGE OF LOST WORLDS"?: EDWARD HITCHCOCK'S "SANDSTONE BIRD" AND THE POETIC EXPLORATION OF SCIENCE AND FAITH.

  Author:Geoffrey ReiterFrom:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20217,687 words Critical essay THOUGH hardly a household name today, Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864) exerted considerable influence in several spheres of knowledge during the first half of the nineteenth century, not only in his native New England but...

• CONFESSION VERSUS COLLUSION: TRUTH-TELLING IN JOHN LE CARRE'S AGENT RUNNING IN THE FIELD.

  Author:Robert Lance SnyderFrom:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20213,811 words Critical essay TOWARD the beginning of John Banville's The Untouchable (1997), Victor Maskell, a fictionalized version of English art historian Anthony Blunt who in 1964 admitted, after a grant of immunity from prosecution, to having...