4 research outputs found
A Study of Brian Moore’s Hallucinatory Technique in Fergus
Hallucinatory realism is a term that has been used in connection with the concept of magical realism in literature . Hallucinatory realism is more specific. I is defined as " a dream-state , where the imaginary universe seems concrete and believable" . Fergus (1970) is one of Brian Moore's novels characterized by innovation in the style of narration and plot structure . From Moore 's perspective , the traditional realistic approach and the modern consciousness method appear to be insufficient for presenting the full dimensions of the crises of an artist-hero in exile . Accordingly, he adopts the hallucinatory technique or Hallucinatory realism in the novel in which the actual world of the hero is inhabited by visiting ghosts and spirits of dead people from his past life in Ireland. The past impinges on the suffocating present not in forms of actual remembrances or recollections , but through the protagonist's imaginative recreation of it in terms of hallucination , which in turn highlights the true nature of the sacrifices in the artist's aesthetic talents and past heritage for the media, fame and publicity . Keywords: Artist–Hero Conflict , Mass–Media , Hallucinatory Realism, Metaphysical Journey to the Past, Self- Redemption
The Doctor's Wife: between Two Worlds: The Crises of Reconciliation and Adjustment in Exile
The Irish-Canadian novelist Brian Moore (1921 –1999) places women at the center of his novels. His principal aim in choosing to write about women is to avoid becoming a writer of autobiographical fiction. The manner of Moore's writing about women also reveals his paramount sympathy with them as individuals doomed to a greater and perhaps more complicated suffering than their male counterparts did in this existence. This paper focuses on Moore’s eleventh novel The Doctor’s Wife (1976).It illustrates the heroine’s role in delineating the important alterations in the author’s life from the moment of choosing self - exile from Northern Ireland until his warm reconciliation with it . The central character’s dilemma highlights the fact that it is not the environment alone but personal reasons are also responsible for the individual’s dramatic choice of escaping to an alien culture. Sheila’s crises of frustration and disappointment in her marriage to a famous but an unimaginative doctor prefigures women's likewise sufferings everywhere in this universe. Keywords: Self-exile, Reconciliation, Feminism, Bliss Resurrection, Stream -of- Consciousness, Modern Concept of Tragic Hero
A Study of Wordsworth's Romantic Conception of Nature in Gibrabn Khalil Gibran’s poem Munajat Arwah
Gibran Khalil Gibran  (1883-1931) is a genius Lebanese poet  , who spent most of his life in    the Unit States of America .While living there, he was exposed to the ideologies of English Romanticism , pioneered by some memorable Romantic poets like Wordsworth, Blake , Shelley and   Keats .Together with his subsequent association with Arrabitah group of AL-Mahjer poets , he contributed to the birth of Arabic Romanticism , which came as a reaction against Arabic neo-classical poetry . Romanticism is described as the return to nature. Nature influences the mind of the poet which in its turn provides a returned response colored by the imagination .Thus, nature becomes a dominant theme in the poems of the literary legend and the founder of English Romanticism William Wordsworth. One of the essential manifestation of Wordsworth's fascination with nature is his insistence on shifting the interest from the city life to countryside, a shift that overwhelms Gibran with similar feelings of nostalgia and regret for the latter's distortion by the factory smokes . In his famous work Munajat Arwah (Communion of Spirits ) published in 1914 , Gibran depicts nature in a typically Wordsworthian mannerism . Therefore, this poem is taken to be a case study for illustrating the English Romantic poet’s impact in molding Gibran’s aesthetic vision of nature’s supremacy over the decadent and polluted existence in cities. Keywords: English Romanticism, sublime feelings, restorative forces of nature, nature as a manifestation of God’s grandeur, nature verses city
The Portrait as an Alive Character in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The paper studies Oscar Wilde 's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published in 1890.   The novel is about a young man named Dorian Gray who falls in love with his own painted  portrait by the artist Basil Hallward . The plot revolves around his corruption and eventual assassination at the hands of his portrait  which, in due course, metamorphoses into an alive  being  to revenge for the distortion of its aesthetic value and beauty.    The paper aims to prove that Wilde has intended for the  portrait of his hero to take a leading role in the narrative discourse . The title of the novel itself , reveals that its main focus is the portrait of  Dorian Gray rather than the protagonist  himself . The study shows that the chain of events and relationships are unfolded mainly through a direct reference to Dorian 's portrait . It is also a central part of the ongoing arguments between the painter Basil Hallward and his hedonistic counterpart Lord Henry Wotton about art , life and beauty in the novel : It endorses our understanding of the true nature of their contrasting opinions on the marvel painted by Hallward . Wilde employs the craft of the painted  portrait of the hero to express   his ideologies   concerning the Aesthetic Movement which appeared in the 19th century period and emphasized the cult of beauty in art and literature. The  evaluation of this modern concept of art is always seen in a parallel connection with the painted portrait of  the hero , Dorian Gray . Ultimately , Wild’s portrait of himself, which  undoubtedly is that of Dorian’s ,    precipitates  in providing a deep understanding of his personality and his artistic vision  in his experimental masterpiece The portrait of Dorian Gray . Indeed, it   is through Dorian’s image and not Dorian's character that the author resolves his conflicts with his prejudiced and  sceptic Victorian  readers. Key Keywords: Artist – hero conflict, aestheticism, beauty ,art, painting , metamorphoses , self- distortion, hedonism , Gothic elements ,revenge .