Colby Quarterly, Volume 34Colby College, 1998 |
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Page 118
... feel certain she represents herself in the protagonist John Franklin of " The King of Folly Island " ( 1886 ) , who is " haunted " by the growing awareness that he " had lost his power of enjoyment , and there might be no remedy ...
... feel certain she represents herself in the protagonist John Franklin of " The King of Folly Island " ( 1886 ) , who is " haunted " by the growing awareness that he " had lost his power of enjoyment , and there might be no remedy ...
Page 156
... feels as if she were “ fall- ing into a vortex , " a Melvillian threat of losing one's identity . She repeatedly refers to herself in these letters as " lazy " and to her works as " nonsense , " and she questions her " real talent ...
... feels as if she were “ fall- ing into a vortex , " a Melvillian threat of losing one's identity . She repeatedly refers to herself in these letters as " lazy " and to her works as " nonsense , " and she questions her " real talent ...
Page 186
... feels and longs and desires , but cannot come forth into any tangible shape in any of the forms of Art " ( Letters 223 ) . It was a soul under “ stress , ” circumscribed by one of " the limitations which gird in humanity , " enduring a ...
... feels and longs and desires , but cannot come forth into any tangible shape in any of the forms of Art " ( Letters 223 ) . It was a soul under “ stress , ” circumscribed by one of " the limitations which gird in humanity , " enduring a ...
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