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The Last Trump
The word "Trump" in the title serves as a nexus for ideas, associations and thoughts, some of a purely personal nature, thus giving rise to a medley of forms, essays, dialogues that hang together in some way.
BACK TO THE WORD (THE LOGOS)
This book consists of several articles on well-known works of literature, which include Hamlet, Wordsworth's poem known by its opening line 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. The underlying approach is termed logocentric, word-based, confuting current theories that words do not constitute the basic stuff of poetry.
Those Writings On the Wall
This books is a collection of stories in prose fiction, dramatic sketches and poetry often with a strong criticism of developments in human affairs
A Defence of Wandering
"Wandering" in the sense indicated in the title of this book concerns the fact that within the ambit of German and English literature since the days of Shakespeare words based on the root of the verbs 'to wander' and 'wandern' appear with great frequency and prominence in such titles as "Wandrers Nachtlied" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud." Is it not strange then that very little interest has been taken in this phenomenon on the part of leading literary critics and scholars with one or two notable exceptions? One reason for this neglect might lie in intransient attitudes and dogmatic theories that deny the very relevance of high literature to all things external in common life, social conditions and the quest for truth.
There's No Clock In the Forest, a Comedy In Two Parts
The setting of this play is projected into the near future when we might envisage a global pilot scheme to establish an ideal campus. But what could that be? In German there is a saying "Unter den Talaren ist der Muff von Tausend Jahren." Under the scholar's gown is the stale fluff of a thousand years. Can the new age campus retain the best of ancient tradition and liberate itself from much in that tradition which is in dire need of reform? The clash of personalities coincides with a clash of attitudes and philosophies. On a more personal level two ambitious members of the academic faculty contend for the hand of a young student, who happens to be the daughter of the Head of the English department. The student body is enraged by the imposition of a video-controlled surveillance system known as the BEAST, and, taking a lead from Shakespeare, they retreat to the green wood.
Dracula,the Pied Piper & Co. and the Question of Evil in the World
This book begins by outlining the salient acts of Vlad III, prince of Wallachia, "the Impaler" - alias Dracula and views him in his historical context. From this point of departure the book proceeds with a more general inquiry into the pertinence and relevance of the concept of evil within a broad context that includes a view of the world today.
My Paperback Book
The allegory as a literary device is too often dismissed as being artificial and contrived, yet one scholar admits that an allegory arises spontaneously when a writer allows a symbolic traveller make one step towards a symbolic mountain. Therefore the resultant allegory cannot be subject to the writer's full control and conscious powers of prediction and determination. It has a life of its own.
Just Wandering
Sometimes scholars and critics of literature tend to impose a pre-determined theory on their interpretation of subject matter. This book is predicated on a reversal of this trend by letting generalizations follow impressions that a close reading of certain literary texts instill in a reader's mind.
A Mixed Bag Containing Essays on Meaningful Coincidences, Stories and Poems With an Apologia Defending My View Of Literature
A mixed bag? The expression often connotes that something or other has good and less good aspects. But, as they say, variety is the spice of life. Salads and potpourris can be delicious. Once one of my tutors called a paper I had writtem "a salad." I now take that appraisal as a compliment.
