John Cowper Powys's Wolf Solent: Critical StudiesBelinda Humfrey Wolf Solent, first published in 1929. |
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Page 93
... desire on Miss Round's face as she gazes raptly at a younger girl , he is moved to ' the very core of his consciousness ' ( 386 ) . But his ' mythology ' resists this imaginative projection into the lesbian's desire . As a result , the ...
... desire on Miss Round's face as she gazes raptly at a younger girl , he is moved to ' the very core of his consciousness ' ( 386 ) . But his ' mythology ' resists this imaginative projection into the lesbian's desire . As a result , the ...
Page 95
... desire . Through his Hamlet - like , schizo- phrenic soliloquy with this emblematic death's - head , Wolf has inti- mations of a desire not tainted by fear of death . But when he loses his ' mythology ' , his ' life - illusion ' , he is ...
... desire . Through his Hamlet - like , schizo- phrenic soliloquy with this emblematic death's - head , Wolf has inti- mations of a desire not tainted by fear of death . But when he loses his ' mythology ' , his ' life - illusion ' , he is ...
Page 100
... desire within the perianth both excites and paralyses Wolf's desire ; Gerda's beauty ' absorbs with a kind of absoluteness the whole aesthetic sense , paralysing the erotic sensibility ' ( 91 ) . The perianth is here displaced but not ...
... desire within the perianth both excites and paralyses Wolf's desire ; Gerda's beauty ' absorbs with a kind of absoluteness the whole aesthetic sense , paralysing the erotic sensibility ' ( 91 ) . The perianth is here displaced but not ...
Contents
The Face on the Waterloo Steps | 37 |
Peter Easingwood | 55 |
Philosophy | 69 |
Copyright | |
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Aberystwyth allusions Angus Wilson Autobiography beauty becomes Belinda Humfrey Blacksod Bob Weevil Carfax character Christie's comic complete Complex Vision consciousness critic death Defence of Sensuality desire Dorset escape evil experience face father feels fiction Glastonbury Romance golden Hamlet Hardy homosexual human Ibid imagination J. C. Powys Jason John Cowper Powys Jude the Obscure King Lear landscape Lenty Pond Letters to Llewelyn letters to Phyllis life-illusion living London look Malakite Malakite's malice mental mind modern mother mysterious myth nature Olwen Patchin Place philosophy Phyllis Playter pigsty poem poetry Porius Powys Review Powys's psychic Ramsgard reader reading reality Redfern's grave romance scapegoat scene seems Selena Selena Gault sense sexual Slow-worm soul story struggle suggests symbolic T. F. Powys things thought tion Torp University Urquhart Village Press Waterloo steps Weevil Weymouth William James William Solent Wolf Solent Wolf's mythology women Wordsworth writing
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