Robertson Davies
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Robertson Davies

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Robertson Davies

About this book

This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between." The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies' oeuvre and represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies' work since his death in 1995.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: Davies Tristram-gistus
  3. The Concert of His Life: Perspectives on the Masks of Robertson Davies
  4. "A Hint of the Basic Brimstone": The Humour of Robertson Davies
  5. Undermining Comedy: Shadows of Determinism in the Salterton Novels
  6. Magic in the Web: Robertson Davies and Shamanstvo
  7. The Leaven of Wine and Spirits in the Fiction of Robertson Davies
  8. Metadrama and Melodrama: Postmodern Elements in the Plays of Robertson Davies
  9. "Where There's a Will, There Are Always Two Ways": Doubling in World of Wonders
  10. Authentic Forgeries: Hermeneutics, Artifice, and Authenticity in Robertson Davies' What's Bred in the Bone
  11. The Myth and Magic of a Textual Truth and/or a Metaphorical Reading of The Deptford Trilogy
  12. "Converting the Clerisy": Quest/ioning, Contradictions, and Ethics in The Cornish Triptych
  13. "Medical Consultation" for Murther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man