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Riverbank and Seashore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature

Riverbank and Seashore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature

Hanson, Gillian Mary

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 078642284X
ISBN13: 9780786422845
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Nov 17 2005
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.66
Language: English

The waters of river and sea represent a kind of freedom, a liberty which, as Iris Murdoch writes, enables man to exist sanely without fear and to perceive what is real. As settings in fiction, the riverbank and seashore are rich in potential, offering a sense of destiny and suggesting the possibility of self-truth and self-knowledge. In British literature, the rural costal setting-shadowed by cliffs, tugged by the constant movement of the sea--becomes the site of revelation and generates the energy that brings characters to a new level of self-awareness. The river's embankments, bridges and tunnels often mark specific stages of revelation and movement in plot. Entrapment and isolation, contingency and communication are themes that seem born of such settings.

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